Ford Motor Company (F) Earnings Beat, Guidance Lifted, Shares Jump

Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) released its earnings numbers for the three months through September this morning before the market opened on Wall Street. The automobile maker showed earnings of 45 cents per share for the third quarter of the year on revenue totaling $36 billion. In pre-market trading the company's stock rose by more than 3% on the earnings beat.

In the run up to the release of this report analysts following Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) were looking for earnings of $38 cents per share for the September quarter....