Ever since its inception, it’s been a blast managing the Street Fighter Portfolio with Matt Argersinger here on Fool.com. We got to share some interesting...
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August 30 - News - Comments
In recent years, investors have gotten a lot more familiar with the Dividend Aristocrats. With admission to the prestigious list requiring that a company...
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August 29 - News - Comments
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on. Today, our headlines...
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August 20 - News - Comments
After Posco’s pullout from the multi-billion-dollar steel projects in India, the world’s leading steel maker ArcelorMittal (ADR) (NYSE:MT), has also...
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August 12 - News - Comments
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...
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August 2 - News - Comments
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...
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August 2 - News - Comments
This year, the global steel industry is facing the overcapacity issues. Most steel mills are running at 70% capacity while still slugging out of the economic...
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August 1 - News - Comments
One of the former high flyers of both the current bull market and the one leading up to the Great Recession, Cliffs Natural Resources Inc (NYSE:CLF),...
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July 26 - News - Comments
The steel industry has had a rough couple of years, and the share prices of integrated steelmakers certainly reflect this. Some companies have been beaten...
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July 22 - News - Comments
Nucor Corporation (NYSE:NUE) earnings came out this morning, and the news was not good. Sales for the fiscal second quarter dropped nearly 9%, to $4.7...
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July 18 - News - Comments
Minerals producer Cliffs Natural Resources Inc (NYSE:CLF) recently announced that president and chief executive officer Joseph Carrabba has decided to...
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July 17 - News - Comments
(for Part I about Standard Oil and its offspring, click here). America didn’t just lead the world in oil at the turn of the last century; it also dominated...
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July 15 - News - Comments
The steel industry is fighting a long, hard battle in the aftermath of the worst recession since the Great Depression. As the financial crisis set in,...
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July 11 - News - Comments
Exchange-traded funds offer a convenient way to invest in sectors or niches that interest you. If you’d like to add some foreign-based stocks to...
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July 9 - News - Comments
Earnings per share, or EPS, is an important metric for investors performs a lot of functions: It helps suggest potential profits on individual shares...
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July 5 - News - Comments
Every quarter, many money managers have to disclose what they’ve bought and sold, via “13F” filings. Their latest moves can shine a...
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July 5 - Hedge Funds - Comments
One of Warren Buffett’s famous sayings is to be greedy when others are fearful and to be fearful when others are greedy. The market is mis-pricing...
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July 1 - News - Comments
The US steel market is facing headwinds due to low metal prices. There are many factors that could be causing this issue such as the declining prices...
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June 29 - News - Comments
Those of us looking to diversify into a company that mine a myriad of metals have some excellent opportunities available at the moment. Two of the worlds...
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June 28 - News - Comments
Whenever investors fear economic weakness, the stocks they flee first tend to be in cyclical industries that are also capital-intensive. Likewise, investors...
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June 24 - News - Comments
The US steel market is facing headwinds given low metal prices. There are many factors that could be encouraging this issue, including the declining prices...
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June 21 - News - Comments
Ferox Capital Management is a U.K.-based, privately-owned hedge fund, having $738 million in assets under management. The firm uses fundamental analysis...
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June 14 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Investors love stocks that consistently beat the Street without getting ahead of their fundamentals and risking a meltdown. The best stocks offer sustainable...
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June 13 - News - Comments
Investors who wish to shift gears and look at an opportunity that has little or nothing to offer in the way of arbitrage may be interested in South Korean...
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June 10 - News - Comments
The world’s leading steel producer, ArcelorMittal (ADR) (NYSE:MT), recently released its quarterly results that disappointed investors, but the sequential...
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June 7 - News - Comments
On Friday, ArcelorMittal (ADR) (NYSE:MT) will release its latest quarterly results. The key to making smart investment decisions on stocks reporting...
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May 8 - News - Comments
US steel stocks are a good opportunity for a long term investment. The Federal Reserve’s third quantitative easing program could benefit steel...
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May 7 - News - Comments
I follow quite a lot of companies, so the usefulness of a watchlist to me cannot be overstated. Without my watchlist, I’d be unable to keep up on...
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April 10 - News - Comments
Earnings season is dead. Long live earnings season! As the calendar flips over on the final earnings season of 2012, investors move briskly ahead into...
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March 30 - News - Comments
Basic-materials companies with operations engaged in commodities, such as chemicals, steel, and aluminum, provide the resources needed to build and maintain...
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March 28 - News - Comments
Founded in 1899 in Ohio, United States, AK Steel Holding Corporation (NYSE:AKS), engages in production of carbon, stainless/electrical sheets, cold rolled...
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March 19 - News - Comments
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...
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March 15 - News - Comments
In a major transaction that has set off a round of speculation in the normally staid iron mining sector, London-based mining giant Rio Tinto plc (ADR...
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March 14 - News - Comments
Nucor Corporation (NYSE:NUE)’s Q4 2012 earnings were within the guidance range due to operating profits that beat expectations. Nucor remains optimistic...
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March 14 - News - Comments
When we wrote puts on ArcelorMittal (ADR) (NYSE:MT) back in September, we were aiming to receive income or secure a lower stock price should the puts...
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March 12 - News - Comments
The world’s top value investors love it when their best stocks ideas are selling at bargain-basement prices. For those rarified investors, companies...
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March 7 - News - Comments
Based in Luxembourg, ArcelorMittal (ADR) (NYSE:MT) is a multinational steel manufacturing corporation. With an annual crude steel production of 97.2...
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March 4 - News - Comments
Based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Steel Dynamics, Inc. (NASDAQ:STLD). is the largest carbon steel producer in the United States. Flat-rolled and sheet steel...
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February 15 - News - Comments
Stocks climbing to 10 times their original price are rare breeds. But they’re not impossible to find — especially when you have Fools for...
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February 14 - News - Comments
In this post I will try to review the 4Q results posted by some companies I always follow: ArcelorMittal (NYSE:MT), BP plc (NYSE:BP) and AK Steel Holding...
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February 11 - News - Comments
In today’s zero interest rate environment, investors continue to search for yield. Investors starved for income could do well by digging deeper into...
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February 11 - News - Comments
MFC Industrial Ltd (MIL), formerly Terra Nova Royalty, has an interesting history and now specializes in global commodity supply chains – it delivers...
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February 1 - News - Comments
The world’s leading aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. (NYSE:AA) posted its results for the quarter ending December 2012. The company swung to a quarterly...
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January 22 - News - Comments
