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Closing Bell: Europe Still a Drag on the Market (C, ALU, MSFT, GENZ, AIG, IRE, NBG, BPOP)

Posted May 24th 2010 4:00PM by Jon Ogg (RSS feed)
Filed under: Citigroup Inc. (C), Amer Intl Group (AIG), Alcatel-LucentADS (ALU), Genzyme (GENZ)

Today was one of the days where the only way to know where it would really end up was to have a crystal ball or time machine with a 4:00 PM destination. The only real data was existing home sales, and the overseas markets offered enough continued weakness and uncertainty that the news flow almost did not even matter. The three major stock indexes all spent at least some time in positive territory despite the woes of the day.

Here were the unofficial closing bell levels:

Dow 10,066.57 -126.82 (-1.24%)
S&P 500 1,073.63 -14.06 (-1.29%)
Nasdaq 2,213.55 -15.49 (-0.69%)

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Analyst downgrades: GTOP, DFS and MSA

Posted Dec 21st 2007 10:05AM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

MOST NOTEWORTHY: Genitope Corp, Discover Financial and Mine Safety Appliances were today's noteworthy downgrades:

Genitope Corp (NASDAQ: GTOP) was downgraded to Underperform from Sector Perform at RBC Capital following MyVax's failure to meet its Phase III trial endpoint.
Calyon downgraded shares of Discover Financial (NYSE: DFS) to Neutral from Buy citing the weak macro environment.
Soleil downgraded Mine Safety Appliances (NYSE: MSA) to Hold from Buy at Soleil on valuation..

OTHER DOWNGRADES:

Morgan Stanley downgraded Vale do Rio Doce (NYSE: RIO) to Equal Weight from Overweight.
Keefe Bruyette downgraded Popular (NASDAQ: BPOP) to Underperform from Market Perform.
Calyon downgraded Pride International (NYSE: PDE) to Neutral from Add.

Analyst initiations 8-30-07: CHINA, DHX, SAI and UNCL

Posted Aug 30th 2007 10:57AM by Kevin Shult (RSS feed)
Filed under: Before the Bell, Analyst Reports, Analyst Initiations, Stocks to Buy, Stocks to Sell

MOST NOTEWORTHY: Popular (BPOP), MRU Holdings (UNCL), CDC Corp (CHINA) and Oscient Pharmaceuticals (OSCI) were today's noteworthy initiations:

Kaufman initiated Popular (NASDAQ: BPOP) with a Hold rating and $13 target, citing the company's direct exposure to nearly $2B of Alt A residential mortgage loans originated by its U.S. operations and approximately $250M of exposure to another $4B of collateralized, securitized mortgage pools.

MRU Holdings (NADSAQ: UNCL) was initiated with a Buy rating and $8.50 target at Roth Capital. Roth Capital believes MRU Holdings is on the threshold of potentially explosive growth in the fast growing segment of the education lending market, that of private loans.

JMP Securities said CDC Corp. (NASDAQ: CHINA) , with its resources and connections in China, has excellent deal flow and has been a disciplined, value oriented buyer, and started shares with a Market Outperform and $10.50 target.

Piper believes Oscient Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: OSCI) experienced management team and PCP sales force are competitive advantages and will lead to attractive partners. Piper initiated Oscient Pharmaceuticals with an Outperform rating and $5 target...

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