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• Steel industry tells DOD that health of U.S. Mfg. sector is essential for national security

  - 2007-01-23

  The U.S. Department of Defense is dependent on a healthy commercial steel industry for the production of its many weapon systems, according to the major U.S. steel trade associations and the United Steelworkers Union. "If we continue to lose our manufacturing base due to market-distorting foreign competition or U.S. economic...

  Tags: China, FINANCE, Investment, Manufacturing, Strategy, U.S., U.S. Department of Defense, United States Steel Corp.

• Zacks' Discount Fundamental Strength Strategy Highlights: Avnet, Inc., JAKKS Pacific, Inc., Plexus Corp. and United States Steel Corp

  - 2006-12-12

  CHICAGO -- Combining strong underlying fundamentals with low valuations can lower risk and increase portfolio returns. Zacks' Discounted Fundamental Strength Profit Track strategy has generated double-digit returns for five consecutive years, including a 23.5% gain in 2005. This strategy has continued to handedly beat the S&P 500. Four stocks that...

  Tags: AvNet Inc., Jakks Pacific Inc., strategy, United States Steel Corp.

• Zacks' Discount Fundamental Strength strategy highlights: Applied Industrial Technologies, Cummins Inc., JAKKS Pacific and United States Steel Corp

  - 2006-09-26

  CHICAGO -- Combining strong underlying fundamentals with low valuations can lower risk and increase portfolio returns. Zacks' Discounted Fundamental Strength Profit Track strategy has generated double-digit returns for five consecutive years, including a 23.5% gain in 2005. For the first five months of 2006, this Profit Track has returned 18.6%....

  Tags: NYSE Euronext, Cummins Inc., strategy, United States Steel Corp.

• Mills are eliminating hindrances to quality: is anything really new in steelmaking? How about the use of high-technology equipment in an 'old technology' industry.(steel technology report)

  - 2003-09-04

  Measure. Monitor. Control. That's how managers at Gerdau Ameristeel Corp. are teaching steelworkers to use new equipment and machinery to reduce variability in the steelmaking process. Result: Better quality steel sheet, plate, bars and other mill products. "The image of the domestic steel industry has developed...

  Tags: General Motors Corp., quality, Strategy, United States Steel Corp.

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Heard Off the Street Column.

  - 2003-07-14

  By Len Boselovic, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 14--AK'S WARDROP NOT AFRAID TO FIGHT: For someone who may need a mate, you'd expect AK Steel Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard M. Wardrop Jr. to behave as a proper gentleman...

  Tags: General Motors Corp., Ohio, Strategy, United States Steel Corp.

• Urge to merger: in several parts of the world, steel companies are merging in order to survive - 2003 Ferrous Scrap Supplement

  - 2003-01-01

  The consolidation of the steel industry--a combination of bankruptcies, buyouts and mergers that will greatly reduce the number of companies in the steelmaking business--has been talked about for a number of years. But in the past two years, the talk has turned into action, as steelmakers throughout the world...

  Tags: bankruptcy, Europe, FINANCE, Indiana, Investment, Litigation, merger, Nucor Corp., OECD, Steel, Strategy, United States Steel Corp.

• U.S. Reversal on Anti-Dumping Policy to Benefit Thailand's Steel Overcapacity.

  - 2002-08-29

  Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 29--The steel overcapacity problem in Thailand is expected to be eliminated within the next year in the light of Washington's reversal of a plan to impose anti-dumping duties on selected steel imports from five...

  Tags: Bangkok Post, benefit, Japan, Strategy, Thailand, United States Steel Corp., Washington

• Japan frets about new U.S. steel charge.

  - 2002-07-15

  TOKYO, July 12 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING INDUSTRY REACTION AT 6TH-9TH PARAS) Japanese trade minister Takeo Hiranuma expressed concerns Friday about rising protectionism in the United States following Thursday's ruling by the U.S. Commerce Department that cold-rolled steel products from Japan and four other...

  Tags: Japan, Strategy, U.S., U.S. Department of Commerce, United States Steel Corp.

• U.S. says Japan firms dumping cold-rolled steel products

  - 2002-07-15

  WASHINGTON, July 11 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING INFO) The U.S. Commerce Department on Thursday issued a final ruling saying cold-rolled steel products from five countries, including Japan, are being dumped on the U.S. market. If the U.S. International Trade Commission ITC concludes in August that...

  Tags: FINANCE, import, steel, Strategy, U.S., U.S. Department of Commerce, United States Steel Corp.

• Steel Trap: How Subsidies and Protectionism Weaken the U.S. Steel Industry

  BNET - 2002-03-01

  On March 6, President Bush is expected to announce specific Section 201 measures to further protect the domestic steel industry from import competition. By any relevant economic measure, the costs of protection will far exceed the benefits, and any benefits accruing to steel firms from that protection will be fleeting....

  Tags: Cato Institute, Management, Strategy, U.S., United States Steel Corp.