Zacks.com Announces that Richard Rhodes Highlights the Following Stocks: ChevronTexaco Corp., Weatherford International, and US Steel

Business Wire, May 26, 2005

CHICAGO -- Richard Rhodes, editor of The Rhodes Report newsletter, may look at taking a short position sooner rather than later. Learn about ChevronTexaco Corp. (NYSE:CVX), Weatherford International (NYSE:WFT), and US Steel (NYSE:X). Click here for the full story exclusively on Zacks.com: http://at.zacks.com/?id=84

Highlights from the May 25th Featured Expert column by Richard Rhodes include:

Sampling from "Paid-to-Play" Portfolio

ChevronTexaco Corp. (NYSE: CVX) is engaged in every aspect of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production; refining, marketing and transportation; chemicals manufacturing and sales; and power generation. In addition, the company develops and commercializes advanced energy technologies, including fuel cells, photovoltaics, advanced batteries and hydrogen storage.

Weatherford International (NYSE: WFT) is one of the world's leading providers of equipment and services used for the drilling, completion and production of oil and natural gas wells. The company's products and services are divided into the following four principal operating divisions: Drilling and Intervention Services; Completion Systems; Artificial Lift Systems; and Compression Services.

US Steel (NYSE: X) manufactures and sells a variety of steel mill products, coke and taconite pellets. Primary steel operations are the Gary (Indiana) Works, the Fairfield (Alabama) Works near Birmingham, the Mon Valley Works (which includes the Edgar Thomson steelmaking and Irvin finishing operations) on the Monongahela River near Pittsburgh, and U. S. Steel Kosice in the Slovak Republic.

Read Richard Rhodes' commentary to discover why he may take a short position and take a look at his entire portfolio by clicking: http://at.zacks.com/?id=85

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