ROUGE STOCK HOLDS POWER: 4TH-QUARTER EARNINGS RISE ABOVE EXPECTATIONS.

Crain's Detroit Business | February 15, 1999| | Copyright

Apparently, better-than-expected earnings overcome even deadly explosions.

On Feb. 1, Rouge Industries Inc. lost power after a fatal blast rocked the nearby power plant at Ford Motor Co.'s Rouge complex, killing two people. Rouge Industries lost power for 10 days, company executives were forced to work off-site, and the company will be unable to make steel for two months.

It could be expected that such an event would shake Rouge (NYSE: ROU) stock. Instead, it finished that week up 25 cents at $11.25, compared with $11 a share the day of the accident.

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