Story Stocks: Toyota Motor (NYSE:TM), Ford Motor (NYSE:F), FedEx (NYSE:FDX)

Toyota Motor (NYSE:TM) is in talks to supply technology and key components for hybrid vehicles to Germany’s Daimler, according to a report Thursday in the evening edition of the Nikkei business daily newspaper. Daimler would be fourth automaker with which Toyota has agreed to supply gas-electric hybrid technology. In March, Toyota struck a deal with fellow Japanese automaker Mazda Motor to use Toyota’s technology to begin selling a line of hybrid vehicles in the home market by 2013. Toyota also supplies Ford Motor (NYSE:F) and Nissan Motors with the technology. –Daily Finance FedEx (NYSE:FDX) said Thursday its fiscal first-quarter earnings jumped to $380 million, or $1.20 a share, from $181 million, or 58 cents a share, in the year-ago period.… . . . → Full Story: Story Stocks: Toyota Motor (NYSE:TM), Ford Motor (NYSE:F), FedEx (NYSE:FDX)