p.s. I wouldn’t characterize CLF’s maneuver as “screwing” the bondholders, but rather as taking advantage of an arbitrage opportunity based on market prices.
p.p.s. CLF is +2% today while the broad market is down. Investors like these kinds of debt-eradicating maneuvers.
“The efficient-market hypothesis may be the foremost piece of B.S. ever promulgated in any area of human knowledge!”