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Welcome to Industry Focus, the show that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

Today we're talking Energy and Industrial's.

It's Thursday, the 11th of January and today we're going to be discussing two American

auto giants GM and Ford.

I'm your host Sarah Priestley and joining me on Skype is

Motley Fall contributor and senior auto specialist John

John. Thank you for joining me today. How are you?

I'm well. Thank you for having me. How are you today?

I'm good. Do you have any outstanding New Year's resolutions?

Oh, good question.

More consistent gym attendance. Oh, yeah. I had a bunch of little injuries last year and got a little sloppy about going to the gym.

I mean no big injuries but like you know aches and pains.

So hoping to get back this year.

Well the right people were queuing for the treadmills last night at my gym. I think everybody's got the same idea,

but including me, you know, I'm on the ban we're going to be looking at General Motors and Ford taking advantage of the new year to recap 2017 for these two American Titans and look ahead for this year as both continue to pivot towards becoming mobility companies away from just

automakers so this means embracing new tech and Silicon Valley on things like

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