Volkswagen

Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) and Volkswagen AG (OTCMKTS: VWAPY) jointly announced an expanded partnership that includes commercial vehicles during a press conference this morning at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Talks between the companies began last summer and...

Volkswagen announced today that it would expand its Chattanooga assembly plant to build the next generation of electric vehicles. Volkswagen's will invest $850 million in the factory and will add about 1,000 jobs in Tennessee and elsewhere in the United States. Volkswagen intends for...

Quiet cabins, Wi-Fi connectivity, wireless charging, LED headlights, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are no longer differentiators. Just about every automaker boasted these features Monday at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Volkswagen Introduces New Product After Diesel...

AutoGravity, a fintech platform for car shopping, has been nationally available for less than a year. The app’s been downloaded more than 750,000 times and processed more than $1 billion in financing requests. With the announcement last month that the Irvine, California-based startup has...

The cover story in this weekend's Barron's features a look at some companies avoiding the trend of tepid investor response to exceeding earnings forecasts. A special feature includes the latest annual Barron's ranking of the top 100 independent financial advisors. Other...

The cover story in this weekend's Barron's features a look at how vulnerable the video streaming giant is now as it faces big changes. In an interview, a renowned stock picker from Fidelity share his thoughts on various investing topics and offers a few picks. Other featured articles take a look...

The European Union and German antitrust regulators are investigating whether the five major German automakers colluded to fix the price of diesel emissions treatment systems, according to published reports. The claims against Volkswagen, Daimler, Audi, BMW and Porsche were first reported Friday in...

This weekend's Barron's offers six dividend-paying stocks that should thrive whether or not inflation hits hard. Other featured articles present results of a poll on America's most respected companies and how a summer blockbuster film makes an anticipated merger more appealing. The prospects for a...

Batteries have a long history, dating back to 1798, when Italian physicist Count Alessandro Volta built a primitive battery consisting of a stack of paired copper zinc disks separated by cardboard disks moistened with a salt or acid solution. Although devices have advanced tremendously over the...

According to a Reuters report, a U.S. federal judge approved a $14.7 billion settlement in which Volkswagen AG (ADR) (OTC: VLKPY) (OTC: VLKAY) will compensate car owners who purchased a diesel vehicle. Judge Charles Breyer approved the settlement, which will see the German carmaker spend up to $10....

A Volkswagen (OTC: VLKAY) engineer has been named in a criminal investigation in a Detroit federal court. According to Click On Detroit, James Liang, a German national, is accused of being developing a "defeat device" for Volkswagen's diesel cars that help conceal a vehicle's...

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) was the largest spender of R&D in the world with its secretive and futuristic Google X segment. Right? Wrong. Volkswagen AG (ADR) (OTC: VLKAY) (OTC: VLKPY) holds the title as the biggest R&D spender, as it dished out $15.1 billion over the past...

This year has not gotten off to the kind of start that most traders had hoped for, and the market fears that led to volatility in the second half of 2015 have only gotten worse so far in 2016. China’s slowing growth and oil and commodity weakness have continued to drive market fears. The S...

Volkswagen AG (ADR) (OTC: VLKAY) acknowledged that the emissions-testing scandal is in reality larger than what has previously been disclosed. An approximate 800,000 additional cars could have been affected and could add at least $2 billion in incremental costs. According to The Wall...