By Nora Eckert

DETROIT (Reuters) -Ford Motor on Friday stood by its annual EBIT guidance of $6 billion to $6.5 billion for this year following another fire this week at aluminum supplier Novelis’ New York plant.

Ford’s stock rose about 4% during Friday’s session, extending gains after the automaker reaffirmed the outlook it had already revised because of production disruptions from a devastating blaze at the supplier’s plant in September.

In October, the carmaker cut its profit forecast, citing a gross hit of up to $2 billion from the incident. Ford expects to offset about $1 billion of that next year by increasing production at certain truck plants, it said in October.

Ford is a major customer of Novelis because its trucks use a largely aluminum body. The automaker indefinitely paused

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