Alcoa Inc (NYTSE:AA) will release its earnings numbers for the three months ending September 30 this afternoon after the bell rings on Wall Street. The company has for many years been seen as an earnings season bellwether, but this year will be different. The company was removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average last month.
In the lead up to the announcement of these results, analysts following Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA) were looking for earnings of 6 cents per share from the company on revenues totaling $5.7 billion. In the same quarter of 2012, the...


