Ford Motor said a supplier issue halted production for about a week at a Michigan plant where the profitable F-150 pickup is made, affecting third-quarter wholesale deliveries. Ford’s overall U.S. sales through August were down 10%. Sales of Ford’s F-Series trucks, which include the F-150 and heavy-duty pickups, are down 11%.
Ford’s steep drop-off in sales in 2026 is expected to result in Hyundai Motor unseating it as the No. 3 car company in the U.S. by sales, according to Cox Automotive. Amazon signed an agreement with Constellation Energy to help upgrade Maryland’s Calvert Cliffs Clean Energy Center, a nuclear site on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay. In return, Constellation will supply Amazon with up to 690 megawatts of power long term from across its fleet.
The deal will add 190 megawatts that will feed back into the regional grid, enough to power about 147,000 new homes. The U.S. economy grew more than previously thought in the second quarter and inflation remained firm in August, new reports showed. The Commerce Department raised its reading for annualized gross domestic product growth in the second quarter to 2.2%, well above the previously reported 1.5%.
Real final sales to private domestic purchasers, a key metric of underlying growth trends, also increased, to 4.6%.
Source: Wall Street Journal US Business · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing