Schaeffer's S&P 500 Index Hot Stocks Features CMS Energy, NVIDIA, United States Steel, Ford, and General Motors.CINCINNATI -- Among the stocks featured in the November 30 edition of Schaeffer's S&P 500 Index Hot Stocks are CMS Energy CMS Energy is a public utility supplying electric power and natural gas to most of Michigan. Its headquarters are located in Jackson, Michigan. The company has operated since 1890. Its two principal subsidiaries are Consumers Energy and CMS Enterprises. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. ), NVIDIA (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :NVDA NVDA NVIDIA Corp (stock symbol) NVDA Non-Violent Direct Action (direct resistance lobbying) NVDA NonVisual Desktop Access (open-source screen reader) ), United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Steel (NYSE:X), Ford (NYSE:F), and General Motors (NYSE:GM). Schaeffer's S&P 500 Index Hot Stocks is just one of the many free market commentaries written every day at www.SchaeffersResearch.com - the home of Bernie Schaeffer and Schaeffer's Investment Research. 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=PRSHS11M&PAGE=1 . Schaeffer's S&P 500 Index Hot Stocks for Wednesday, November 30, 2005: A daily feature available on SchaeffersResearch.com is the "SPX (Sequenced Packet EXchange) The transport layer protocol in the NetWare operating system. Similar to the TCP layer in TCP/IP, it ensures that the entire message arrives intact. SPX uses NetWare's IPX as its delivery mechanism. Hot Stocks" column. Each afternoon, we will provide a list of the day's top-20 performing stocks in the S&P 500 Index (SPX - 1,255.56) as well as the bottom-20 names. Featured along with this table will be news that is moving some of the securities. NOTE: Stocks trading under $5 per share have been eliminated from this listing of the top-20 and bottom-20 performing stocks. The SPX has turned negative today, following yesterday's flat performance. Data was mainly positive, but it seems that investors are more interested in locking in solid November gains. On the SPX, 55 percent of the components have slipped into negative territory as the index tries to struggle back to breakeven breakeven 1. The level of output or sales necessary to cover fixed expenses. Companies in industries that have high fixed costs and, consequently, high breakevens, such as automobile and steel manufacturing, are likely to exhibit large fluctuations . I had to dig a bit to find news on the upside Upside The potential dollar amount by which the market or a stock could rise. Notes: This is basically an educated guess on how high a stock could go in the near future. See also: Bull, Downside movers. The first of those was CMS Energy (NYSE:CMS). The company has tacked on more than two percent after Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. upgraded the company to "buy" from "neutral." The brokerage firm stated the belief that the recent price weakness provides a good entry point. Merrill Lynch stated "We view CMS as an attractive regulated turnaround story with two key drivers: an expected December rate order in Michigan that should significantly enhance regulated earnings potential; and deleveraging of the parent company through tax sharing and further potential asset monetizations." Yesterday, NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) found itself on the negative side of our hot stocks equation. Today, the chipmaker chip·mak·er n. A manufacturer of electronic and integrated circuit chips. has been able to make a bit of a comeback. Yesterday, the shares dropped more than five percent after a pair of analyst downgrades. Today, the stock has changed its situation and tack on more than two percent. Atop our hot stocks list for the second straight day is United States Steel (NYSE:X). Yesterday, the company was added to J.P. Morgan's U.S. analysts focus list on the belief that the stock is "significantly undervalued Undervalued A stock or other security that is trading below its true value. Notes: The difficulty is knowing what the "true" value actually is. Analysts will usually recommend an undervalued stock with a strong buy rating. ." Today, investors have continued to applaud this move, as X has gained nearly five percent. The automaking industry has been kind enough to supply me with the final two stocks in our article this afternoon; General Motors (NYSE:GM) and Ford Motor (NYSE:F). F has lost more than three percent today after The Wall Street Journal reported that it is going to cut production at its Jaguar luxury brand by as much as seven percent in 2006. Reportedly, the carmaker may sell its Brown Lane plant in Coventry, England. A spokesman from Jaguar told the Journal that it is in talks with parties that have expressed interest in buying the plant, and that no final decision has been made whether or not to sell the site. GM has lost more than three percent ahead of tomorrow's announcement of November U.S. sales results. Analysts believe that F and GM will see another "lackluster" month of sales despite the introduction of second-half promotions and some slack in gasoline gasoline or petrol, light, volatile mixture of hydrocarbons for use in the internal-combustion engine and as an organic solvent, obtained primarily by fractional distillation and "cracking" of petroleum, but also obtained from natural gas, by prices. 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