Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) was started as Buy at ThinkEquity with a $94 price target.  Shares closed at $70.49 yesterday and shares are up 2% at $71.92 on about 50,000 shares.

CIENA Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN) is trading up after earnings.  The company beat earnings but revenues were soft.  Earnings were -$0.13 EPS versus -$0.25 EPS expected from Thomson Reuters; Revenues were up to $253.5 million, but estimates were $268 million.  Shares closed at $13.84 and are up 4% at $14.40 on over 30,000 shares.

Eclipsys Corporation (NASDAQ: ECLP) is going to merge in an all-stock deal valued at $1.35 billion with Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions (NASDAQ: MDRX).  Eclipsys will receive 1.2 Allscripts shares for each Eclipsys share, what appears to be a 19% premium before any price reaction.  Eclipsys shares are up only 11.5% at $20.65 on over 100,000 shares pre-market.

PharmAthene Inc. (AMEX: PIP) is trading higher aftyer reports that the U.S. Geberal Accounting Office has denied competitor protest of SparVax contract modifications.  Shares are trading up almost 19% at $1.84 on thin volume.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) said its Phase III study in gout patients initiating allopurinol therapy to lower uric acid levels with its ARCALYST prevented gout attacks.  Shares are actually down over 5% at $24.98 now, but appear to have traded above $27.00 initially.

Tellabs Inc. (NASDAQ: TLAB) is tryiong to bounce after recent downgrade turmoil has whacked the shares.  Reports came out late Tuesday that the spokesperson of Tellabs said that the market is overreacting as its product lifespan is longer than appreciated and that AT&T shipments remain strong and that it continues to compete for new business.  Sounds familiar to what we called yesterday.  Shares are up 0ver 4% at $6.64 on only about 15,000 shares in the pre-market.

Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN) had its quarterly update and the chip-maker raised the lower end of its Q2 guidance forecast.  It said that the rebound in industrial markets has been helping the sales of its analog and power management chips.  Shares are up 2% at $24.36 on fairly thin pre-market trading.

TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) is down about 3% at $7.52 on only about 15,000 shares this morning.  This one took a small hit yesterday but volume exploded right before the close after it released a statement showing that the court case decision had further remained against it.

TTI Team Telecom International Ltd. (NASDAQ: TTIL) is surging after news that TEOCO will acquire TTI in an all-cash buyout valued at $2.90 initially and up to $3.00 if adjustments are made from target performance.  Shares are up 16% at $2.82, a new 52-week high.

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Douglas A. McIntyre

• Astec Industries (ASTE) Cut to Sell at Piper Jaffray.
• Eclipsys (ECLP) Cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.
• General Dynamics (GD) Started as Hold at Collins Stewart.
• Marsh & McdLennan (MMC) Cut to Underperform at FBR.
• Radioshack (RSH) Cut to Underweight at Keybanc.
• Turkcell (TKC) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.

Jon C. Ogg
February 25, 2009

• Air Products (APD) Cut to Hold at KeyBanc.
• Alcoa (AA) Cut to Equal Weight at Morgan Stanley.
• Century Aluminum (CENX) Cut to Equal Weight at Morgan Stanley.
• Cerner (CERN) Cut to Hold at Jefferies; Cut to Perform at Oppenheimer.
• Dynamic Materials (BOOM) Cut to Hold at KeyBanc.
• Eclipsys (ECLP) Cut to Underperform at Jefferies.
• El Paso Electric (EE) Cut to Hold at Jefferies.
• Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (FCX) Cut to Equal Weight at Morgan Stanley; Cut to Underperform at FBR.
• Kellogg (K) Cut to Hold at Citigroup.
• Logitech (LOGI) Cut to Sell at Citigroup.
• Wyeth (WYE) Cut to Neutral at UBS.

Jon C. Ogg
January 22, 2009

• Central European Distribution (CEDC) started as buy at Deutsche Bank.
• China Distance Education (DL) started as outperform at Oppenheimer.
• Corning (GLW) raised to overweight at Thomas Weisel.
• Eclipsys (ECLP) started as buy at Deutsche Bank.
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) raised to outperform at Bernstein.
• Kimberly-Clark (KMB) raised to buy at Citigroup.
• Rio Tinto (RTP) raised to buy at Canaccord.

Jon C. Ogg
September 9, 2008