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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Monday's Upgrades and Downgrades	UPGRADESInvitrogen (IVGN)- First Analysis Sec Equal-Weight » Overweight Hercules Offshore (HERO)- CapitalOne southcoast Neutral » Add Apollo Group (APOL)- First Analysis Sec Equal-Weight » Overweight Yahoo! (YHOO)- Stifel Nicolaus Hold » Buy Continental Air (CAL)- Soleil Hold » Buy Partner Comms (PTNR)- UBS Neutral » Buy Yahoo! (YHOO)- Soleil Sell » Hold Petro-Canada (PCZ)- Banc of America Sec Neutral » Buy Old Dominion (ODFL)- Robert W. Baird Neutral ...	June 15, 2008
Analyst downgrades: BUD, BRP and FNSR	Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Anheuser-Busch Cos (BUD), Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM)MOST NOTEWORTHY: Anheuser-Busch, Brasil Telecom and Finisar were today's noteworthy downgrades: UBS downgraded Anheuser-Busch (NYSE: BUD) to Neutral from Buy citing the InBev unsolicited bid. JP Morgan cut Brasil Telecom (NYSE: BRP) to Underweight from Neutral on concerns over the merger with Telemar. Piper downgraded Finisar (NASDAQ: FNSR) to Neutral from Buy f...	June 13, 2008
Gannett numbers get worse	Filed under: Earnings reports, Bad news, Gannett Co (GCI), Economic dataIn a sign that the newspaper industry's problems are accelerating, Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), the largest newspaper chain in the US, posted awful numbers for April. The information makes it more likely that the stocks of smaller paper companies like The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) will take a dive over the next several weeks. GCI revenues for the period ended May 4, 2008 declined 7.7 % compared with the same period in...	May 19, 2008
The first big bankruptcy in newspaper industry?	Filed under: Forecasts, Deals, Industry, RecessionJournal Register (NYSE: JRC) may be the first large, listed newspaper company to go into Chapter 11. With falling revenue and high debt, the company, which publishes a number of papers including the New Haven Register, hired Lazard as it faces delisting from the New York Stock Exchange. JRC has been the most likely chain to hit trouble for some time. It bought a number of papers in Michigan four years ago and the deep trouble in the economy ther...	April 05, 2008
As newspaper spending falls, some companies face end	Filed under: Earnings reports, Forecasts, Bad news, IndustryIn the fourth quarter, newspaper revenue dropped 10%. That includes revenue from online enterprises. According to The Wall Street Journal "Ad spending at newspapers and their Web sites totaled $12.6 billion in the December quarter, compared with $14 billion in the final three months of 2006, the Newspaper Association of America said." Only spending was only 7% of the total. Two companies may be facing forced sales of some of their pro...	March 30, 2008
Sell Block: McClatchy CEO Gary Pruitt	Cramer added a new face to the infamous Mad Money Wall of Shame Thursday, and that new face is Gary Pruitt, CEO of McClatchy (MNI). Cramer advised investors to take a look at the chart of MNI, which shows a 82% fall since the newspaper firm bought a smaller rival. According to Cramer, this wasn't the first time that Pruitt has made a bad acquisition. He cited the purchase of Knight-Ridder and the Minneapolis Star as two horrible deals that Pruitt has done. Pruitt’s big mandate at McClatchy has...	March 06, 2008
LEE: Should Lee Enterprises Investors Stop the Presses or Pick Up a Scoop?	photo credit: qnr This article is a reprint of my February 21, 2008 RealMoney column The last year hasn’t been a good time to own a newspaper. The best performing stock was Washington Post (WPO), which managed not to decline significantly. New York Times (NYT) and Gannett (GCI - Annual Report) are down as much as half, while smaller firms like Lee Enterprises (LEE), Belo Corp. (BLC), McClatchy (MNI) and Journal Register (JRC) have registered declines ranging from 60-80%. Always on the eye...	February 28, 2008
McClatchy (MNI) Downgraded Again	Night of the living dead newspaper chain McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) got hit with another downgrade today. Fitch cut the company's issuer default rating further into... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...	February 15, 2008
The Week's Insider Buys	Barnes & Noble Inc (BKS) = $9,935,860Aldabra 2 Acquisition Corp (AII)=$ 5,812,920Pepsiamericas Inc New (PAS0 = $5,130,040Highland Credit Strategies Fund (HCF)=$ 2,856,871Penwest Pharmaceuticals Co (PPCO) = $ 2,399,491Global Logistics Acquisition Corp (GLA)= $ 2,398,400Danaher Corp (DHR) = $2,124,981Mcclatchy Co (MNI)= $ 1,705,500Alliance Semiconductor Corp (ALSC )= $1,663,763Cache Inc (CACH) = $1,325,290Legg Mason Inc (LM )= $1,003,622Mf Global Ltd (MF) = $997,963Dow Chemical ...	February 09, 2008
Wednesday's Upgrades and Downgrades	UpgradesEvergreen Solar (ESLR)= Janco Partners Mkt Perform » Buy Virgin Media (VMED)= Citigroup Hold » Buy El Paso Electric (EE)= Soleil Hold » Buy Chattem (CHTT)= Stanford Research Hold » Buy Sysco (SYY )= Piper Jaffray Neutral » Buy Zoran (ZRAN)= Needham & Co Buy » Strong Buy CGI Group (GIB)= RBC Capital Mkts Sector Perform » Outperform Toyota Motor (TM)= HSBC Securities Underweight » Neutral Medivation (MDVN)= Stanford Research Hold » Buy Estee Lauder (E...	January 30, 2008

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