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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Wednesday's Upgrades and Downgrades	UpgradesInter Parfums (IPAR)- Caris & Company Above Average » Buy Schnitzer Steel (SCHN)- Longbow Neutral » Buy Genesis Energy, L.P. (GEL)- Morgan Keegan Mkt Perform » Outperform UPS (UPS)- Stifel Nicolaus Hold » Buy United Dominion (UDR)- Stifel Nicolaus Hold » Buy Equity Res (EQR)- Stifel Nicolaus Hold » Buy UnionBanCal (UB)- BMO Capital Markets Underperform » Market Perform Bankrate (RATE)- RBC Capital Mkts Sector Perform » Outperform Medivation (MDVN...	July 09, 2008
Willis brokers a $2.1 billion deal for Hilb	Filed under: Deals, Aon Corp (AOC)Willis Group Holdings (NYSE: WSH), the third largest insurance broker, is about to become much bigger. Yes, the company has announced a $2.1 billion acquisition of Hilb Rogal & Hobbs (NYSE: HRH). The transaction is half cash and half stock. Although, Willis plans a $1 billion buyback to sop up the shares. Based on the financials, the deal looks smart. Willis plans to realize annualized synergies of about $140 million by 2012. What's more, the transaction sh...	June 09, 2008
Marsh & McLennan (MMC) President/CEO Buys 40K Shares	Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Insider+Trades/Marsh+%26+McLennan+%28MMC%29+PresidentCEO+Buys+40K+Shares/3655185.html for the full story....	May 15, 2008
Analyst upgrades: PFB, ERIC, MMC, DLTR and TAL	Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgradesMOST NOTEWORTHY: PFF Bancorp, Ericsson and TAL International Group were today's noteworthy upgrades: B. Riley upgraded shares of PFF Bancorp (NYSE: PFB) to Neutral from Sell on valuation with the stock trading at 11% of the last reported tangible book value of $14.37 at December 31, 2007. RBC Capital believes Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) will benefit from network builds in North America and Asia. Shares were raised to Outperfo...	May 12, 2008
Market highlights for next week: April sales results coming out	Filed under: Earnings reports, Conventions and conferences, Annual meetings, Wal-Mart (WMT), Walt Disney (DIS), Target Corp. (TGT), Amer Intl Group (AIG), Abercrombie and Fitch (ANF), Sotheby's (BID), Anadarko Petroleum (APC)Monday, May 5 Happy Cinco de Mayo! Day one of the two-day FDA Anesthetic/Life Support Drugs & Drug Safety/Risk Management Advisory Committees meeting: Purdue Pharma's NDA for Oxycontin. Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE:APC) to report Q1 earnings; conference cal...	May 02, 2008
Tuesday's Upgrades and Downgrades	UpgradesBoeing (BA)- AmTech Research Sell » NeutralHasbro (HAS)- Needham & Co Hold » Buy Gol Intelligent Airlines (GOL)- Deutsche Securities Hold » Buy WD-40 Company (WDFC)- JP Morgan Underweight » Neutral Pinnacle Airlines (PNCL)- JP Morgan Underweight » Overweight Eaton Vance (EV)- JP Morgan Underweight » Neutral PETsMART (PETM)- Banc of America Sec Neutral » Buy Marsh McLennan (MMC)- Keefe Bruyette Mkt Perform » OutperformDowngradesCybex (CYBI)- Dou...	April 15, 2008
Analyst upgrades: PETM, MMC and PNCL	Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Hasbro Inc (HAS)MOST NOTEWORTHY: PetSmart, Marsh & McLennan and Pinnacle Airlines were today's noteworthy upgrades: Banc of America upgraded PetSmart (NASDAQ:PETM) to Buy from Neutral on valuation, as they believe the market is overly negative on the company's cyclicality. Keefe Bruyette upgraded shares of Marsh & McLennan (NYSE:MMC) to Outperform from Market Perform on increased confidence management will be ab...	April 14, 2008
Platinum Stocks	I remember back in 1995 and 1996, gold and platinum were both selling for around $400 an ounce. Now gold is selling for around $972 per ounce, a bid more than doubling. Yet platinum is now at over $2,000 per ounce, a quintupling in price.Platinum has the following characteristics:1. It is thirty times rarer than gold.2. The top producer is South Africa, then Russia, then Canada.3. There is a large amount of platinum on the Moon.4. Platinum complexes are used in the treatment of cancers.5. King L...	March 08, 2008
Did Eliot Spitzer destroy AIG and Marsh & McLennan?	Filed under: Management, Amer Intl Group (AIG), PoliticsAn op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal wonders (subscription required) whether Eliot Spitzer's high-profile demands for change at AIG (NYSE: AIG) and Marsh & McLennan (NYSE: MMC) did more harm than good: "In both cases, Mr. Spitzer issued ultimatums to the company boards that they had to replace their CEOs, or else he'd indict the company," the paper says. "Both companies have struggled ever since." Before we get on Spitzer too hard,...	March 03, 2008
Earnings highlights: Coca-Cola, Deere, Abercrombie, Baidu, Playboy, Taser and others	Filed under: Earnings reports, Coca-Cola (KO), Dean Foods (DF), Abercrombie and Fitch (ANF), Deere and Co (DE), Qwest Communications Intl (Q), Goodyear Tire and Rubber (GT), Zoltek Co (ZOLT), Taser Intl Inc (TASR)Here are a few highlights of this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks: Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) beat estimates on strong sales and higher profit margins. Baidu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) profit soared on strong revenue from online marketing. ...	February 16, 2008

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