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Analyst Calls: ATH, ANDE, BLK, BUCY, ITRI, LEAP, LM, PFG, SF, STP ...

Posted Dec 2nd 2010 10:30AM by Laurie Pasternack (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Analyst Initiations, Suntech Power Hldgs ADS (STP), Andersons Inc (ANDE)

Analyst Upgrades

Stifel Financial (SF) and CVR Energy (CVI) to buy from neutral and Principal Financial (PFG) to conviction buy from buy at Goldman.
Suntech (STP) to buy from hold at Auriga.
Internap (INAP) to outperform from sector perform at RBC Capital.
Andersons (ANDE) to buy from hold at BB&T.

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Analyst Calls: WDC, Q, HSY, BWLD, NOK, COP, KFT, VZ ...

Posted Apr 23rd 2010 9:30AM by Laurie Pasternack (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Nokia Corp. (NOK), Baxter Intl (BAX), Hershey Co (HSY), ConocoPhillips (COP), Verizon Communications (VZ), Analyst Initiations, Kraft Foods'A' (KFT), Qwest Communications Intl (Q)

Analyst upgrades

Deutsche Bank upgraded Sonoco Products (SON) to buy from hold after the company reported Q1 results and raised guidance. The firm upped its target for shares to $38 from $32.
Baird upgraded Western Digital (WDC) to outperform from neutral following the solid Q3 report and guidance. The firm raised its target to $50 from $48.
Goldman upgraded Qwest (Q) to neutral from sell. Qwest is being acquired by CenturyLink (CTL).
Hershey (HSY) was upgraded to neutral from underweight at JPMorgan.
Principal Financial (PFG) was upgraded to neutral from sell at UBS.
Monster Worldwide (MWW) was upgraded to market perform from underperform at Wells Fargo.

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: The next run is on the insurers

Posted Oct 2nd 2008 9:35AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Market Matters, SLM Corp (SLM), Cramer on BloggingStocks, Financial Crisis

TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says he doesn't want to make a move until he sees the action.

We aren't oversold enough anymore, and we are up too much. Meanwhile, the next run is on the insurers, as we can tell from the erratic nature of the way that group is trading.

Oh, and what's the deal with Sallie Mae (NYSE: SLM) (Cramer's Take)?

There's not a lot of respite here in part, again, because of Lehman and the default of so much Washington Mutual paper.

We just aren't ready for what is happening yet, and we keep getting surprised about where the paper is. The rescue bill will help, but the pork attachments are so horrible that I believe, ex-FDIC, they have made it tougher to pass, not easier.

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