DuPont de Nemours Inc. (DD)

In spite of its 8% decline, year-to-date, he likes this stock. A value investment. It’s dividend yield, buyback yield indicates it is a stock that wants to turn around. It will take patience.

Technicals are a negative. Being squeezed by gas prices.

This and other chemical companies had a big run earlier in the year. Have been coming off because of softness in chemical prices and raw materials have gone up. Unlike a lot of other chemical companies, i.e. not as much of a commodity producer, but more of specialty and performance chermicals and those margins have held up better.

Believes we are in a strong extended chemical cycle. On the agricultural side of their business they have a very strong position and there has been a very strong demand growth. On commodity chemicals, they have managed capacity growth to make sure capacity stays tight.