MOST NOTEWORTHY:

• Bear Stearns Companies (NYSE: BSC) was downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Banc of America to reflect weaker fixed income trends, challenges in prime-brokerage and asset management, and no positive catalysts. They feel the stock is "dead money" for the next 6-12 months.
  
• Morgan Stanley lowered Omnicare Inc's (NYSE: OCR) rating to Underweight from Equal Weight citing the Department of Justice's inquiry into the company's business practices.
• Suntrust believes Street expectations for Kforce Inc (NASDAQ: KFRC) may be too optimistic given a potential slowdown in finance and accounting temporary staffing volumes and downgraded shares to Neutral from Buy.
• Wyeth (NYSE: WYE) was downgraded to Hold from Buy at Citigroup to reflect a more negative industry outlook, recent pipeline setbacks and the negative court ruling related to the Protonix litigation.

• EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) was removed from Goldman's Conviction Buy List.
• Stanford downgraded shares of Alabama National Bancorp (NASDAQ: ALAB) to Hold from Buy.
• Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) was downgraded to Hold from Buy at Sandler.

Analyst downgrades 9-7-07: BSC, OCR, KFRC and WYE originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.