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Daily Archives: July 29, 2008

Top Pre-Market Analyst Downgrades (ANF, AEO, ANN, CHS, CWTR, ENTR, IGT, MSA, OVTI, VNDA)

Posted: July 29, 2008 at 6:51 am

These are some of the analyst downgrades and negative calls we are seeing early this Tuesday morning:Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) Started as Neutral at Goldman Sachs.American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) Started ...
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Top Pre-Market Analyst Upgrades (ARO, AMGN, DPS, EDS, ENR, PCAR, PBR, RAH, SAP, URBN, V)

Posted: July 29, 2008 at 6:26 am

These are some of the analyst upgrades and positive calls we are seeing early this Tuesday morning:Aeropostale (ARO) Started as Buy at Goldman Sachs.Amgen (AMGN) Raised to Buy at Citigroup.Dr. ...
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Merrill Lynch (MER) Meets The IMF Head On

Posted: July 29, 2008 at 4:17 am

In an ironic bit of sloganeering, the current Merrill Lynch (MER) corporate promotion is "Even In Today's Economy, There Are Smart Places For Your Money." It may not be lost ...
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Alcatel-Lucent’s (ALU) CEO-For-Life Walks Toward The Sunset

Posted: July 29, 2008 at 3:35 am

Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) CEO Pat Russo survived a string of quarterly losses and catastrophes at her company that would have put a lesser person down. She remained bloodied by unbowed as ...
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FDIC Chief Whistles Past The Graveyard

Posted: July 29, 2008 at 3:11 am

FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, perhaps looking for a break in the relentless storm of the financial crisis, said that only 13% of banks on the agency's watch list actually fail. ...
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JetBlue (JBLU) CEO Takes Haircut

Posted: July 29, 2008 at 2:16 am

In an 8-K filed with the SEC, JetBlue (JBLU) announced that CEO David Barger "voluntarily amended" his employment agreement to "reduce his base salary by fifty percent, from $500,000 per ...
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Media Digest 7/29/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

Posted: July 29, 2008 at 2:10 am

According to Reuters, Merrill Lynch (MER) said that it would sell $8.5 billion in stock and take large write-downs. Reuters report that KKR says the market slump is a good ...
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Asia Markets 7/29/2008 (SNE)(TM)(LFC)(CHL)

Posted: July 29, 2008 at 1:40 am

Markets in Asia were off sharply. The Nikkei fell 1.6% to 13,141. Ricoh was off 3.5% to 1697. Sony (SNE) was off 3.2% to 3210. Toyota (TM) was off 2.6% ...
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