Laith Khalaf, financial analyst at AJ Bell, shares his analysis on which UK Fund Managers have outperformed Warren Buffett.
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April 28 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
The U.S. shale energy boom is beginning to trickle down into the economy.
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September 15 - Commodities, News - Comments
With rising interest rates the subject of many financial headlines lately, there are many fears from investors, both justified and not.
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September 11 - News - Comments
Steel producers play a pivotal role in our society, as steel is a basic material used in everything from automobiles to buildings, among other things.
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September 11 - News - Comments
In recent years, investors have gotten a lot more familiar with the Dividend Aristocrats.
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August 29 - News - Comments
Steel Dynamics, Inc. (NASDAQ:STLD) is a company that was founded by three ex-employees of another steel giant, Nucor Corporation (NYSE:NUE).
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August 12 - News - Comments
Companies compete successfully by either differentiating their products or by providing almost identical products at lower costs.
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August 7 - News - Comments
Companies compete successfully by either differentiating their products or by providing almost identical products at lower costs.
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August 5 - News - Comments
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 - 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 world's demand in all ...
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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 to recover.
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August 2 - News - Comments
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 - Comments
Sales for the fiscal second quarter dropped nearly 9%, to $4.7 billion.
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July 18 - News - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
The US steel market is facing headwinds due to low metal prices.
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June 29 - News - Comments
Steel players have seen their stock prices plummeting since June 17.
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June 26 - News - Comments
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 - Comments
The US steel market is facing headwinds given low metal prices.
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June 21 - News - Comments
The outlook for steel producers is not very good.
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June 14 - News - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
Following large, recent insider buying is a fun way to screen for stocks.
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May 22 - Insider Trading - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
The debate over natural gas exportation has created some unfamiliar enemies and even more unfamiliar friends.
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April 24 - News - Comments
On Thursday, Nucor Corporation (NYSE:NUE) will release its latest quarterly results.
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April 17 - News - Comments
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 - Comments
TMS International Corp.
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April 3 - News - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - 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 Steel (AIIS).
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March 15 - News - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
Based in Luxembourg, ArcelorMittal (ADR) (NYSE:MT) is a multinational steel manufacturing corporation.
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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.
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February 15 - News - Comments
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 - Comments
It's tough to judge -- or at least to quantify -- managerial competence.
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February 4 - News - Comments
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 - Comments
