Beyond refinancing its debt, CEMEX also noted other cost-cutting and growth drivers that caused its core operating profits to hit their highest levels in three years. On the cost-cutting front, CEMEX signed a deal to outsource 2,000 jobs to IBM (NYSE: IBM). The deal is expected to save $1 billion over the next 10 years. CEMEX is also seeing stabilization in the U.S. housing industry, as evidenced by the strength from America's largest homebuilder, D.R. Horton (NYSE: DHI), which recorded net sales order growth of 25% in its latest quarter.