Ford Reports $380M Loss for 3rd-Qtr

Ford Motor Co. posted a third-quarter loss of $380 million on Thursday, a vast improvement over its $5.2 billion loss a year earlier.

But it was a worse performance than its second-quarter profit of $750 million, its first profitable quarter in two years.

The overall net loss amounted to 19 cents per share for the July-September period in contrast to a net loss of $2.79 per share in the third quarter of last year.

Much of the loss was attributed to $350 million in special …