I’m starting to see a little uncertainty in Ford (F: chart, Y!) with the stock dropping $0.07 today. This is actually good news for a guy who’s trying to get in the game.

Additionally, the company expects to see January sales down 20% over the same month a year ago due to a drop in sales to rental car companies.

Interestingly enough, Ford is watching the real estate market to see how their F150 truck sales will do for the rest of the year.

Mark Fields, Ford’s president of the Americas, said what happens to the F-series this year is largely dependent on how the housing industry fares.

I can see how the real estate market could affect truck sales, but I don’t know that the sales numbers would be “largely dependent” on real estate. It seems like Fields could be using any decline in the real estate market as a scapegoat for decreasing truck sales. Of course, if you want to nit-pick, you could argue that any decrease in the housing market will have a trickle down effect which will undoubtedly affect auto sales across the board.

We’ll see. I’ve still got a buy target in for under $8 per share. It’ll be interesting to see if I get an opportunity or not.

In the precious metals market, I think I repeated the following line a half dozen times over lunch today:

I shoulda bought gold. I shoulda bought gold. I shoulda bought gold…

As my markets-guru brother told me today, we saw ourselves a gold rush today. GLD (GLD: chart) was up 61 cents today, largely on the fact that the Fed is leaving interest rates alone. At least for the time being.

And so it goes.

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