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Friday's Upgrades and Downgrades	UPGRADES Coldwater Creek (CWTR)- CL King Accumulate » Strong Buy SuccessFactors (SFSF)- Wedbush Morgan Hold » Buy Zoran (ZRAN)- Longbow Neutral » Buy Lincare (LNCR)- Wachovia Mkt Perform » Outperform Pantry (PTRY)- Friedman Billings Mkt Perform » Outperform Check Point Sftwr (CHKP)- Lehman Brothers Equal-Weight » Overweight Corinthian Colleges (COCO)- Lehman Brothers Equal-Weight » Overweight Host Hotels (HST)- Robert W. Baird Neutral » Outperform Cit...	June 27, 2008
Paying for Financial Insurance	The assorted downgrades in the financial-services sector have investors selling shares and holders of debt taking out additional insurance to guard against the risk of default in trading today. All four of the major brokerages show a higher cost to insure $10 million in bonds against default, according to analysts at Phoenix Partners Group, which tracks the spreads on credit-default swaps. The same can be said for Citigroup Inc., which has lost 6% in trading and was the most actively traded on ...	June 26, 2008
Serious Money: General Motors drops after Goldman ratings cut	Filed under: Major movement, International markets, Other issues, Bad news, Rants and raves, General Motors (GM), Market matters, Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Serious MoneyIt was only yesterday that I posted Serious Money: GM, GE, Gee Wiz!, concerned that Barron's was betting on the wrong horse (which happens all too often -- see Sunday Funnies: Big Brown a sure thing at Belmont) as it pumped up General Motors (NYSE: GM) in a cover story two weeks ago.GM stock closed yesterday at $12.81 but today t...	June 26, 2008
Wall Street Rumors- June 26, 2008	Daily rumors covering the global markets. Subscribe to the update feed here. Anheuser Girds for Fight With InBev Anheuser-Busch Cos. (NYSE:BUD) is prepared to reject InBev NV’s (EBR:INB) unsolicited $46.35 billion acquisition offer as early as this week, setting the stage for a hostile takeover battle for America’s largest brewer, according to people familiar with the matter. Fed Holds Rate Steady As Inflation Worries Rise The Federal Reserve brought its aggressive campaign of int...	June 26, 2008
Analyst downgrades: U.S. brokers, GS and RIMM	Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, General Motors (GM), Citigroup Inc. (C), Research in Motion (RIMM), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), Red Hat Inc (RHT)MOST NOTEWORTHY: The U.S. Brokers sector, Goldman Sachs and Research in Motion were today's noteworthy downgrades: Goldman downgraded U.S. Brokers to Neutral from Attractive since they can not find a catalyst to move the group significantly higher over the next few months given the continued dete...	June 26, 2008
Dow down 200 points - blame it on Goldman	Filed under: Major movement, Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, General Motors (GM), Market matters, Citigroup Inc. (C), Merrill Lynch (MER), Research in Motion (RIMM), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Oracle Corp (ORCL), DJIA, NASDAQGoldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) decided to it needs to correct the market a little more and issued a slew of downgrades.Already yesterday it downgraded aerospace stocks, and today it went after financials and autos.No sooner than we got used to the huge writeoffs a...	June 26, 2008
GDP posts gains, jobless claims hits high, housing sales rise -- what a mix!	Filed under: Economic data, Housing, Federal Reserve, RecessionThe Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 150 points (at 10:15 a.m.). I guess that it was to be expected as we woke up to news that Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) downgraded investment banks. Wall Street is also worried about the outlook for tech stocks after both RIM (NASDAQ: RIMM) and Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) reported quarterly results Wednesday, giving a tepid outlook.Then, final revision of first quarter GDP were released an hour before th...	June 26, 2008
Fast Money Recap	Word On The Street WORD VIDEO HERE RIMM Trade Research In Motion (RIMM) reported a higher first-quarter profit, but the shares plunged after the company’s guidance missed Wall Street estimates. Najarian said now is a great opportunity to buy this stock and he disclosed he will be adding to his position tomorrow. He noted the company added 2.3 million new subscribers without bringing out some of its new releases. Dennis Gartman The traders spoke with Dennis Gartman, author of The Gartman Le...	June 25, 2008
CNBC Bonus Bucks Trivia: In the CNBC Stock Blog, “Brokerage Stocks: Go Long,” what did Ryan Lentell call “probably the best set-up firm”?	In the CNBC Stock Blog, “Brokerage Stocks: Go Long,” what did Ryan Lentell call “probably the best set-up firm”? What of perennial favorite Goldman Sachs (GS)? “Long-term…Goldman’s probably the best set-up firm,” he said. “It’s the most pricey, and the market realizes that…I think it’s undervalued today, but I think you can get some better values in some of its competitors.” In the models I use, Goldman looks far ...	June 24, 2008
Is new level of Wall Street job cuts the largest?	Filed under: Forecasts, Employees, Citigroup Inc. (C), Goldman Sachs Group (GS)Two separate pieces of news hit the market. They did not appear to be directly related, but they do say that employment on Wall Street could drop much further this year. According to The Wall Street Journal, Citigroup's (NYSE: C) "will dismiss thousands of investment-banking employees world-wide as part of a plan to cut the roughly 65,000-employee group by 10%." The FT reports, Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) "is now expec...	June 23, 2008

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