MOST NOTEWORTHY: Veraz , Cisco Systems and tw telecom were today's noteworthy downgrades:

• Jefferies downgraded shares of Veraz (NASDAQ: VRAZ) to Underperform from Hold after the company pre-announced a Q2 miss, as they are concerned about the company's ability to execute a turnaround. Jefferies lowered their target to 85c from $2.50.
  
• Credit Suisse cut Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) to Neutral from Outperform as they believe carriers may reduce spending given the slowing economic growth. Credit Suisse lowered their target price to $24 from $31.
  
• JP Morgan downgraded tw telecom (NASDAQ: TWTC) to Underweight from Overweight on concerns enterprise trends will continue to deteriorate.

OTHER DOWNGRADES:

• Eaton (NYSE: ETN) and Altra Holdings (NASDAQ: AIMC) were lowered to Neutral from Buy at Merrill Lynch.
  
• ASML Holdings (NASDAQ: ASML) was downgraded to Reduce from Hold at Petercam.
  
• Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA) was cut at Piper to Neutral from Buy.
  
• Lev Pharmaceutials (OTC: LEVP) was downgraded to Hold from Buy at Jefferies.

Analyst downgrades: VRAZ, CSCO and TWTC originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Wall Street's equity market offers a modest plate this week, with three IPOs and four Secondaries on the docket.

Those deals tentatively scheduled to price include:

IPOs:

Tuesday

• Aldabra 2 Acquisition (ALL.U), a 30M-share IPO for this business finance company. Lazard is the lead manager. Filing price: $10.00
• Sterlite Industries (SLT), a 125M-share IPO for this India-based metals company. Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup are the lead managers. Filing price: $13.85.

Thursday

• Care Investment Trust (CRE), an 18.75M-share IPO for this business finance company. Credit Suisse and Merrill Lynch are the lead managers. Filing range: $15.00-$17.00.

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