Zacks.com Announces That Richard Rhodes Highlights the Following Stocks: AmSouth Bancorp, Phelps Dodge, and U.S. Steel.CHICAGO -- The crude oil market continues to be the focus of much of the market's attention, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Richard Rhodes Richard Lee Rhodes (b. July 4, 1937) is an American journalist, historian, and author of both fiction and non-fiction (which he prefers to call "verity"), including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), and most recently, . Find out what the recent recall elections in Venezuela Elections in Venezuela gives information on elections and election results in Venezuela. Venezuela elects on a national level a head of state – a president – and a unicameral federal legislature. mean to the larger picture, and learn about a trio of this expert's trading positions. Read about AmSouth Bancorp (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ASO ASO arteriosclerosis obliterans. ASO 1 Administrative services organization, see there 2 Allele-specific–oligonucleotide hybridization 3 Anti-streptolysin O, see there ), Phelps Dodge Phelps Dodge Corporation is a former United States company founded in 1834 by Anson Greene Phelps and William E. Dodge. On March 19, 2007, it was acquired by Freeport-McMoRan and now operates under the name Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. Corp. (NYSE:PD), and 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). Richard Rhodes is editor of The Rhodes Report newsletter. Click here for the full story exclusively on Zacks.com: http://at.zacks.com/?id=84 Here are the highlights from the Featured Expert column: Capital Market Commentary from August 15 In weekend news - the crude oil market continues to be 'front and center' for us at this juncture, with the President recall elections in Venezuela nearly 95% complete. Crude oil is off its record highs near $47/barrel...trading off 9 cents at $46.49 following news that President Chavez has held onto his presidency. Clearly, news of his victory has caused the world equity markets to rally off their lows - with Japan closing down only -0.6% after having been nearly -2.0% lower; Europe too is rallying on the news...up very modestly with the exception of France. Trading Positions The shares below are issues in which Rhodes currently holds a position. AmSouth Bancorp (NYSE:ASO) is a bank holding company whose principal subsidiary is AmSouth Bank. AmSouth bank has three segments: Consumer Banking, Commercial Banking and Capital Management. Phelps Dodge Corp. (NYSE:PD) produces copper, carbon black, magnet wire Magnet wire is a copper or aluminum wire covered with thin insulation. It is used in the construction of transformers, inductors, motors, and electromagnets, among other applications. However, it is not magnetic itself. , and continuous-cast copper rod. United States Steel (NYSE:X) manufactures and sells a variety of steel mill products, coke and taconite taconite, low-grade iron ore, a flintlike rock usually containing less than 30% iron. Resistant to drilling and to the extraction of its contained metal, the rock was long considered worthless. Experiments begun in 1912 by the American scientist Edward W. pellets. 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