Schaeffer's Daily Market Blog Features Nissan Motor, Visteon, Ford Motor, Nucor, and Intel.

CINCINNATI -- Among the stocks featured in the March 11 edition of Schaeffer's Market Blog are Nissan Motor (NASDAQ:NSANY), Visteon (NYSE:VC), Ford Motor (NYSE:F), Nucor (NYSE:NUE), and Intel (NASDAQ:INTC). Schaeffer's Market Blog are just one of the many free market commentaries written everyday at www.SchaeffersResearch.com - the home of Bernie Schaeffer and Schaeffer's Investment Research. The Market Blog is written throughout every trading day by Schaeffer's financial analysts and traders. They are quick insights to the day's most notable market activity from an options perspective. For additional information about this report or to have it delivered to you free via email every day click on the following link. http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/redirect.aspx?CODE=PRMOU1M&PAGE=1 .

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9:54 AM Renault Pays a Third of a Billion for IT

The newswires are reporting today that Renault, which owns 44.4 percent of Japan's Nissan Motor (NASDAQ:NSANY) and ranks as France's number-two automaker, has been favoring U.S. corporations. Computer Sciences (CSC) has been awarded a $236 million IT infrastructure services contract and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) receives a $150 million outsourcing deal. Trading is quiet right now, and I have seen no pre-market activity for either company.

10:52 AM Good News from Visteon and Ford

Visteon (NYSE:VC) is an automotive components unit, spun off by Ford Motor (NYSE:F) in 2000. Hoovers, always a good resource for research, informs me that VC is the number-two parts supplier, with Delphi (DPH) in the lead. (DPH is the General Motors (GM) spin-off.)

VC shares are up more than 17 percent this morning, following agreement of a financial deal with F concerning union workers, capital expenditures and payment terms. In response, Prudential increased its rating to "neutral" from "underweight," and CSFB upgraded the company to "neutral" from "underperform." Visteon has a short-interest ratio of 9.4 days to cover, with more than 13 percent of the available shares (or float) currently sold short. Right now, the pessimists would find it expensive to close out those short positions.

11:54 AM Nucor Guides Higher Again

According to Yahoo!Finance, Nucor (NYSE:NUE) is engaged in the manufacture and sale of steel and steel products. NUE operates in two segments: steel mills and steel products. This morning, the company raised its first-quarter earnings guidance, as a result of better-than-expected shipments and margins. NUE now sees earnings of $1.95 to $2.15 a share, which is higher than its January guidance of $1.70 to $1.90. The steel sector has been red-hot, and a look at NUE's relative-strength versus the broad market (as measured by the S&P 500 Index) reveals that it has been solidly outperforming the broad market since the beginning of 2004. While many steel stocks recently experienced a pullback on concerns that China may be overproducing steel, these equities are seeing a nice bounce today. At last check, NUE was trading more than seven percent higher to $61.79.

Intel Turns Lower Intraday

As my colleague Mark Fightmaster detailed in a Daily Market Blog late in the day yesterday, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) came out with a positive mid-quarter update after yesterday's market close. The company boosted its forecast and traded higher in post-market activity. While INTC gapped about 1.4 percent higher this morning, the shares have been in a steady decline intraday. In fact, the stock is now down about 1.1 percent on the day. As I discussed in a blog posting yesterday, expectations were set quite high for INTC. We had noted some optimistic activity in the options market, with investors aggressively adding front-month at-the-money calls. What's more, several brokerage houses came out with positive comments about INTC ahead of its mid-quarter update. Such high expectations can be problematic for a security because even if it is able to report positive fundamental news, people are already expecting good news. Furthermore, many investors may have already purchased the security ahead of the event due to the expectation of good results. Therefore, there are fewer buyers left to come in and push the share price higher. At last check, INTC was trading 28 cents lower to $24.55.

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