Alcoa Leads Off 2Q Earnings Season at Volatile Time for Its Stock

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Alcoa , the producer of aluminum and former component of Dow Jones Industrial Average, reports earnings after the close Wednesday. For investors it's a matter of managing extreme volatility. Alcoa became a former Dow stock at the close of business back on Sept. 20, 2013, with a close of $8.20. The stock had an extremely strong momentum run-up of 114% to a post-Dow intraday high of $17.75 set on Nov. 21, 2014. Since then, the stock has been taken to the woodshed trading ...