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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations	Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Analyst initiationsAnalyst upgrades: Jefferies upgraded shares of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) to Buy from Hold and raised the target to $79 from $52.50 on valuation and believes the company can use its strong cash flow position to acquire assets. Baird said The Corporate Executive Board Company's (NASDAQ: EXBD) valuation is discounting a miss and that the company is well positioned as an early-cycle story wit...	October 16, 2008
Capital Injections Stabilize UK Bank Ratings at Current Levels	The “extraordinary support” provided by the UK government stands a good chance of succeeding in rebuilding confidence in the UK banking system and stabilizing UK banks at their current rating levels, Standard & Poor’s says. S&P on Oct 13 affirmed its ‘AA-/A-1+’counterparty credit ratings on Barclays NYSE: BCS) and Lloyds TSB Group (NYSE: LYG) and its ‘A+/A-1′ counterparty credit ratings on HBOS (NYSE:HBOS) and The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC...	October 14, 2008
SEC Naked Short List	On July 15, 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission came out with an emergency order which said that effective July 21, no short selling may take place in any of the following stocks unless the trader "borrowed or arranged to borrow the security or otherwise has the security that is being shorted available to borrow in its inventory prior to effecting such short sale and delivers the security on settlement date". In other words, strictly enforcing the "no naked short sale" rule.Maybe there ...	August 13, 2008
Barclays Global Taps Reynoso as Latin American CIO	By Murray ColemanBarclays (BCS) Global Investors [BGI] has named Alejandro Reynoso as chief investment officer and regional director for its growing exchange-traded funds business in the region. ...	July 28, 2008
Top Yielding NYSE Stocks	Here are the highest yielding stocks that trade on the New York Stock Exchange, with PE ratios below 20, PEG ratios below 1, and market caps above $500 million. You will notice that there are many European companies on the list, including a couple Irish banks.Northstar Realty Finance Corp. (NRF) a debt oriented real estate investment trust yielding 15.91% KKR Financial Holdings LLC (KFN) a mortgage oriented real estate investment trust yielding 15.31% Barclays PLC (BCS) the London based bank hol...	July 24, 2008
Barclays Global ETFs: iShares Doing the Splits	Barclays Global International (BCS), creator of nearly 200 exchanged-traded products in its iShares line-up, has slated 16 for "the splits." Shareholders of record on the close of business, 7/21/08, will see the value of their shares go down, while the number of shares will go up accordingly. For instance, the iShares Latin America 40 Index Fund (ILF) is trading at around $250. With the scheduled 5 for 1 split, the price will be adjusted down to $50. At the same time, a shareholder who...	July 20, 2008
Key Analyst Calls: Financial Stocks (BCS, C, CYN, GS)	These are some of the calls in the financial sector that are impacting shares at major financial companies this Thursday morning: Barclays (NYSE: BCS) Raised... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...	June 26, 2008
Analyst upgrades: BCS, CYN and BAESY	Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Barclays plc ADS (BCS)MOST NOTEWORTHY: Barclays, City National and BAE Systems were today's noteworthy upgrades: Morgan Stanley upgraded shares of Barclays (NYSE:BCS) to Overweight from Equal Weight after the company announced plans to raise capital and disclosed no further write-downs. Keefe Bruyette lifted City National (NYSE:CYN) to Outperform from Market Perform on valuation, as they believe the company should outper...	June 26, 2008
Hershey Needs Tootsie	So, if Hershey (HSY) is not going to be sold, it needs to acquire to keep pace with the new Mars & Wrigley (WWY) combo. Recently Hershey reaffirmed its fiscal 2008 guidance and expects net sales growth to be in the range of 3%-4% and earnings per share-diluted from operations (EPS) to be $1.85-$1.90. They reported revenue of $4.9 billion in fiscal 2007. According to Reuters Estimates, analysts on average are expecting the Company to report revenue of $5.1 billion in the same period. On another ...	June 26, 2008
Citigroup may have another $9 billion in losses	Filed under: Analyst reports, Forecasts, Bad news, Citigroup Inc. (C), Economic data, Barclays plc ADS (BCS)Over at Goldman Sachs the firm's research opinion on Citigroup (NYSE:C) took a sharp turn for the worse. According to Reuters, the brokerage said Citi "may incur second-quarter write-downs of $9 billion and raise additional capital." If a new infusion of money into Citi looks anything like the one Barclays (NYSE:BCS) just completed, an capital raise of $10 billion could dilute current sha...	June 26, 2008

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