In late April, billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian made public his intention to have Tracindo Corp., his investment company, buy up an additional 20 million shares of Ford stock to up his ...

Back in April, Kirk Kerkorian claimed he wanted to buy an extra 20 million shares of Ford Motor Co. That would have given him a total of 120 million shares and 5.6% of the Dearborn-based automaker.

Legendary investor Kirk Kerkorian died this week, at the age of 98. Over his long career, he got involved with the Big Three Detroit automakers on several occasions. It each case, it wasn't ...