*AK Steel Holding Corp.* *fell $2.71, or 17 percent*, to $12.81 as of 4:15 p.m. in New York. Second-quarter net income was $222 million, or $1.33 a share, compared with a loss of $25 million, or 17 cents, a year earlier. Sales gained 9.4 percent to $5.12 billion from $4.68 billion, missing the $5.39 billion average of nine analysts’ estimates in the Bloomberg survey.
*U.S. Steel Corp.*, the country’s largest producer of the metal by volume, *fell the most in 18 months* in New York after posting a second-quarter profit that missed analysts’ estimates as European steel prices slid. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-26/u-s-steel-falls-after-missing-analyst-estimates-on-european-loss.html '+'
