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The metals stock to buy immediately as it goes into its exponential earnings announcement soon to come: SID (CSN)...Latin America Jack Dzierwa discussed ideas about how to play Brazil's public-works endeavor, starting with Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (SID:companhia siderurgica nacion sponsored adr
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4:02pm 07/16/2008

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SID 40.12, +0.48, +1.2%) , the country's third-largest steel producer.
"You need steel" no matter the improvement project, the fund manager said. Steel producers comprise the largest portion of the portfolio, at about 9% of assets. "What's most important," Dzierwa noted, "is that this is a fully-integrated steel company. CSN has its own internally generated iron ore -- and we've seen how iron ore [prices] have been behaving -- in addition to steel."
Iron ore is the key material used to make steel, and its largest producers -- Brazil's Companhia Vale do Rio Doce and Anglo-Australian mining firms Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton Ltd -- have boosted their prices by at least 71% over the last year.
"[CSN] is producing steel at the same time as raw material, so it is not exposed to price fluctuations," Dzierwa said. "It helps manage margins much better than if you were at the mercy of an outside supplier."