Companies compete successfully by either differentiating their products or by providing almost identical products at lower costs.
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August 5 - News
Despite the fact that steel is one of the most important products in modern civilization, this year has been tough for steel makers as steel prices have remained low.
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August 5 - News
ArcelorMittal (ADR) (NYSE:MT), POSCO (ADR) (NYSE:PKX) and Nucor Corporation (NYSE:NUE) are the largest steel producers in the world, meeting most of the world's demand in all ...
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August 2 - News
Demand from China caused a price spike in steel that simply wasn't sustainable. As demand comes back to more normal levels, look for the industry to recover.
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August 2 - News
On July 18, the United States Steel Corporation (NYSE:X)’ biggest mini-mill steel producer, Nucor Corporation (NYSE:NUE) , released its earnings for the second quarter, 2013...
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July 23 - News
Sales for the fiscal second quarter dropped nearly 9%, to $4.7 billion.
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July 18 - News
America didn’t just lead the world in oil at the turn of the last century; it also dominated in another important facet of modern life: steel production.
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July 15 - News
The steel industry is fighting a long, hard battle in the aftermath of the worst recession since the Great Depression.
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July 11 - News
With a majority of metals producers having a very difficult 2013 so far, it is becoming tougher to find bright spots in the sector.
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July 1 - News
The US steel market is facing headwinds due to low metal prices.
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June 29 - News
Steel players have seen their stock prices plummeting since June 17.
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June 26 - News
Whenever investors fear economic weakness, the stocks they flee first tend to be in cyclical industries that are also capital-intensive.
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June 24 - News
ArcelorMittal (ADR) (NYSE:MT) was in 12 hedge funds' portfolio at the end of March. MT investors should be aware of an increase in hedge fund interest recently.
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June 24 - News
The US steel market is facing headwinds given low metal prices.
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June 21 - News
The outlook for steel producers is not very good.
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June 14 - News
Investors love stocks that consistently beat the Street without getting ahead of their fundamentals and risking a meltdown.
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June 13 - News
Mining companies have been under pressure this year. Whatever you dig, be it gold, silver, iron ore or coal – your stock would fall.
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June 10 - News
The world’s leading steel producer, ArcelorMittal (ADR) (NYSE:MT), recently released its quarterly results that disappointed investors, but the sequential improvements led ...
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June 7 - News
Some investors will only invest in companies with moats and will never touch commodity companies, even with a ten-foot pole. For me, anything is fair game at the right price.
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June 3 - News
To the average investor, there are many methods shareholders can use to track stocks. A couple of the best are hedge fund and insider trading movement.
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May 30 - News
After a good five years of caution thanks to an ailing housing market and tight fisted consumers, it looks like the real estate recovery is for real and consumers are spending...
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May 30 - News
Following large, recent insider buying is a fun way to screen for stocks.
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May 22 - Insider Trading
The steel industry has been going through a “prisoner’s dilemma.” No single company is willing to reduce its production, and as a result, all players in the industry are...
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May 20 - News
Over the past decade the stock of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW) is up by just 10%.
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May 16 - News
Kimelman & Baird is an employee-owned investment management company providing services to a wide range of clients.
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May 10 - Hedge Funds
The debate over natural gas exportation has created some unfamiliar enemies and even more unfamiliar friends.
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April 24 - News
On Thursday, Nucor Corporation (NYSE:NUE) will release its latest quarterly results.
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April 17 - News
Is Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (ADR) (NYSE:SID) going to take off soon? Prominent investors are becoming hopeful.
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April 10 - News
Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA) has long marked the unofficial kickoff of the earnings season as the first Dow component to report each quarter.
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April 7 - News
The funny thing about the natural gas export debate is that both sides are claiming the exact same thing -- that they will help create more American jobs and bring down the trade...
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April 2 - News
As the calendar flips over on the final earnings season of 2012, investors move briskly ahead into Q1.
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March 30 - News
In the eyes of most stock holders, hedge funds are assumed to be underperforming, outdated financial tools of yesteryear.
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March 27 - News
Winter just doesn’t seem to want to give way to spring this year. Where I live, we’ve been hit with more snow and a continuation of this cold winter.
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March 27 - News
US Steel exports for 2012 climbed 2.2% to a record 13.745 million tons despite a slowdown at the end of the year according to American Institute for International Steel (AIIS).
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March 15 - News
Nucor Corporation (NYSE:NUE)'s Q4 2012 earnings were within the guidance range due to operating profits that beat expectations.
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March 14 - News
As the military adage goes, “amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics.” An interesting bit of wisdom that reminds us that we can win the battle, but still lose...
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March 13 - News
A battle is brewing over natural gas exports, which is likely the first of many battlegrounds we must navigate as we continue to move forward without a real energy policy. At...
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March 11 - News
At The Motley Fool, we poke plenty of fun at Wall Street analysts and their endless cycle of upgrades, downgrades, and "initiating coverage at neutral." Today, we'll show you ...
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March 6 - News
Based in Luxembourg, ArcelorMittal (ADR) (NYSE:MT) is a multinational steel manufacturing corporation.
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March 4 - News
Based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Steel Dynamics, Inc. (NASDAQ:STLD). is the largest carbon steel producer in the United States.
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February 15 - News
Over the past year, I (along with many other investors) have recognized the awesome beauty of dividend stocks.
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February 4 - News
It's tough to judge -- or at least to quantify -- managerial competence.
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February 4 - News
MFC Industrial Ltd (MIL), formerly Terra Nova Royalty, has an interesting history and now specializes in global commodity supply chains – it delivers commodities and materials...
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February 1 - News