Yum! Brands slaughtered; Lululemon initiated a "buy"; U.S. Steel may idle plant

Susannah Lee

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Yum! Brands 

Yum! Brands (YUM) tanked after disappointing quarterly results. The company missed estimates by seven cents with earnings of $1 a share. Sales came in below expectations as well. Yum also cut its full-year outlook. The operator of KFC and Pizza Hut is still suffering from a food safety scandal in China, where one of its suppliers used expired meat.

United States Steel

U.S. Steel (X) got a boost as it explores cost cutting methods. The company is considering consolidating its North American flat-rolled operations and temporarily halting its steelmaking at an Illinois plant. U.S. Steel is struggling with low commodity prices and a surge of imports, which it blames on unfair subsidizes by foreign governments. The company has put 2,000 workers in Illinois on notice that they could be laid off.

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Lululemon

Lululemon (LULU) stretched higher after a strong start on Wall Street. The stock is now being covered at Citigroup with a "buy" rating and a price target of $69 a share, that's a potential upside of about 33% from the last closing price. Citi also initiated other retailers TJX (TJX), Tiffany (TIF) and Urban Outfitters (URBN) as its top picks in the retail sector.