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Nucor Corporation (), a Fortune 300 company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, is one of the largest steel producers in the United States, and the largest of the "mini-mill" operators (those using electric arc furnaces to melt scrap steel, as opposed to companies operating integrated steel works with blast furnaces).
Read More at Wikipedia ›Steel giant ArcelorMittal (MT) announced Friday the sale of Skyline Steel and Astralloy business in the North American Free Trade Agreement region to Nucor Corp.
(NUE) for around $605 million, on a debt free and cash free basis.The deal is in keeping with ArcelorMittal's plan to sell non-core assets to pay down debt and brings the total number of announced non-core asset sales to about $2.2 billion since September 2011, according to Dow Jones Newswires calculations."Skyline Steel and Astralloy are strong specialist businesses with excellent prospects in their markets. However, this decision is very much in line with our strategy of focusing on core assets and reducing net debt," said Aditya Mittal, ArcelorMittal's chief financial officer in a statement. "As the largest supplier to Skyline Steel, Nucor was a natural buyer for this subsidiary business," he added.ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaker accounting for some 6% of the world's production, said that the transaction inclu...DOW JONES NEWSWIRESNucor Corp. (NUE) swung to a bigger-than-expected fourth-quarter profit as the steelmaker said it was aided by an uptick in steel prices in Decemb...
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* Indexes: Dow off 0.2 pct, S&P off 0.07, Nasdaq up 0.2 (Adds Nucor halt)By Chuck MikolajczakNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks were littlechanged Tuesday after promis...
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Following in the footsteps of another steelmaker, Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ:STLD) warned Wall Street on Friday it expects to generate first-quarter earnings that will m...
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Nucor Corp. said Thursday it expects first-quarter earnings of 30 cents to 35 cents a share, including a one-time charge of 3 cents a share for accounting costs. In ...