TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says that as consumers try to stretch their dining dollar, Darden, Yum! and McDonald's will benefit.
We all know we are overstored in this country and over-restauranted. There are tons of players -- so many that the competition got too hard. Now they collapse. That Uno might miss a payment, that Bennigan's and S...
Eoin Treacy of Fullermoney says that as commodities prices weaken, you need to look carefully before investing.
Q. Eoin, I've read that China's annual consumption of copper has declined from a 28.66% growth rate to 2.4%. What does that mean for continued growth in China and also for the global copper market?
A. China and indeed much of Asia and the Middle East are in a generational-long period where they have to build infrastructure from the ground...
By Alex Kolb, Zack's Investment Research United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) has seen 8 out of 10 covering analysts boost full-year earnings estimates since we featured this Growth and Income pick back in mid-July. Forecasts of $20.50 per share are above last month's $16.00. The most accurate projection is more bullish at $21.46 per share.
Robust Growth with Record Numbers
The company recently announced second-quarter results and upped its dividend. Net income of $668 million soared past the previous year's $302 million. During the past 5 co
With all the talk of recession, of manipulation in the financial markets, of hedge funds short selling the brokers and of oil hovering around all time highs, sometimes it seems that investors get too caught up in the fast paced world of Wall Street. Sometimes people forget about the "old-timers," the companies that are responsible for making Wall Street what it is today. Companies that saw the Great Depression come and go, saw two world wars pass and saw times when titans like J. Pierpont Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Charles Schwab, and so many other notables ruled the Street.
As noted this morning, I went short coal, natural gas and steel stocks this morning. Here are the trades:
Short 200 shares of ACI at $65.24 (closed at $62.23).
Short 100 shares of APA at $123.37 (closed at 116.96).
Short 100 shares of X at $163.56 (158.17)
Short 200 shares of ZEUS at $59.67 (closed at $56.96)
My strategy was to short on today's strength stocks within these sectors that had
Steel prices
continue to rise as China
needs more. US
Steel Corp is riding the rising price of steel to new levels of profitability
and market capitalization.
Risaburo Nezu, chairman of the OECD steel committee told, "Global steel demand growth continues to be led by emerging economies to meet the requirements of expanding industrial sectors and infrastructure growth. Demand in many mature economies has slowed in line with weaker economic activity".
The OECD’s steel committee consists of industry and government officials from countries that together account for 81% of the world’s steel exports.
And according to Nezu, steel use continues to grow most rapidly in the so-called “BRIC” economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China. In 20...
United States Steel Corporation produces steel products. It operates through three segments: Flat-rolled Products, U. S. Steel Europe, and Tubular Products. The Flat-rolled Products segment produces slabs, sheets, tin mill products, strip mill plates, rounds, and coke. It serves customers in the service center, conversion, transportation, construction, container, and appliance and electrical markets in North America. The U.S. Steel Europe segment manufactures and sells sheet, strip mill plate, tin mill, and tubular products, as well as heating radiators and refractories. It serves customer
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says the slide has to end somewhere -- eventually, we'll see a bid.
Is someone having a margin call? That's what I keep thinking as I watch the sickening slide in Motorola's (NYSE: MOT) (Cramer's Take) stock. How can Motorola go down so much? This is a company ...
When it comes to the worldwide metals market, gold may get all of the attention but other, more durable, metals such as steel and iron have proved to be much more profitable. For instance, the price of gold is actually down 2% from mid-January, but steel prices are 50% higher.
With crude oil prices soaring, shares in coal and fertilizer companies have also been climbing for the past year. Barron's offers a survey of the momentum plays, pointing out some opportunities and risks when investing in coal and fertilizer stocks.
Talking about risks, Barron's underlines the fact that it can be difficult for investors to put their hard earned money into a stock that is already trading near its highs. But as they say, the trend is up unless proven otherwise, and we might take this into account when pic
6/5 - "US Steel (NYSE: X) shares are trading higher after competitor Nucor (NYSE: NUE) raised its earnings outlook for its upcoming second-quarter earnings. The previous forecast of 1.55 to 1.60 was lifted by 20 cents to 1.75 to 1.80. Analysts were looking for 1.69 and an upside surprise by NUE should signal good things for X as well."
"For a bullish hedged play on this stock, I would consider a July bull-put credit spread below the $140 range. A bull-put credit spread is an options position that combines the purchase and sale of put options to hedge risk in case the stock doesn't do what ...
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says that rebuilding from natural disasters can alter the growth picture for a country.
Is it Katrina all over again? Or is it bigger? Much bigger? That's what I am thinking about this Chinese earthquake.
Katrina distorted the U.S.'s growth pattern for more than a full year. The raw materials, the effort, the work, the reconstruction affected businesses from small-scale ret...
X marks the spot!
- X marks the spot! Holy moly, the company of steel is UNSTOPPABLE! Looks destined for $200s here shortly. Jeez louise is this thing juiced! It just do...
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With crude oil prices soaring, shares in coal and fertilizer companies have also been climbing for the past year. Barron's offers a 
