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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 Omnicare (NYSE: OCR) to Buy from Hold and raised their target to $37 from $24.50 following the company's Q2 results to reflect improving earnings visibility. Piper upgraded Motorola (NYSE: MOT) to Neutral from Sell following the company's Q2 results to reflect its continued execution in cost management. The firm raised its target to $9 from $7. Capit...	August 01, 2008
Monster Settles Class Action; Buys Trovix For $72.5M	Quite an eventful afternoon for Monster Worldwide (MNST). For starters, the company announced that it has reached a tentative settlement of a securities class action connected with the company’s previous stock-options granting practices. Defendants will pay $47.5 million; Monster’s share net of insurance and a contribution from another defendant will be $25 million. Monster also said a state court has granted approval of a previously announced preliminary settlement of related securi...	July 31, 2008
Microsoft (MSFT) to give up on buying big web companies	Filed under: Deals, Competitive strategy, Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Monster Worldwide (MNST)Many Wall Street analysts thought that when Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) lost its bid for Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) that it would take the $45 billion it was going to spend and buy other online companies. Think again. Microsoft's management says it is not so. According to the FT, "Steve Ballmer, chief executive, scotched talk that Microsoft would turn to a `plan B' of other acquisitions to boost its onlin...	June 20, 2008
Monster: Worrisome Falloff In May Job Listings	The number of job listings on employment Web site Monster Worldwide (MNST) fell dramatically in May compared with a year earlier, according to Deutsche Bank analyst Jeetil Patel. Patel says that U.S. job postings are down 18% on a year-over-year basis for the quarter to date, with a 21% drop in May. That’s worse than the 8% slide in April. Patel says the shrinking number of listings could pressure revenue and profits in the June quarter. He says revenue from the North American careers seg...	June 02, 2008
$330 billion Auction Rate Securities freezes tech cash	Filed under: Monster Worldwide (MNST), Palm Inc (PALM), Intuit Inc (INTU)The ARS market has thrust its poisoned tentacles in another direction. After raising interest costs for issuers and wiping out the formerly "safe" cash holdings of individual investors, the Wall Street Journal reports that frozen ARS accounts have hit tech companies as well. Specifically, the Journal lists $855.7 million worth of ARS holding on the books of these five tech companies, listed as follows: Monster World...	March 28, 2008
Auction-rate securities hurt tech company results, lawsuits ahead?	Filed under: Earnings reports, Bad news, Monster Worldwide (MNST), Palm Inc (PALM)Auction-rate securities were supposed to be cash equivalents. Individuals and companies could move in and out of them in a day. The financial instruments have existed since 1985. In an auction, any imbalance in securities bought and sold were picked up by banks and brokerages and sold at the next event. These auctions went on as often as several times a week. The problem with the market is that when banks started ...	March 28, 2008
Thursday's Upgrades and Downgrades	UpgradesBuffalo Wild Wings (BWLD)- SMH Capital Sell » Buy FCStone (FCSX)- BMO Capital Markets Market Perform » Outperform Mercantile Bank (MBWM)- Stifel Nicolaus Hold » Buy Getty Realty Corp. (GTY)- Stifel Nicolaus Sell » Hold Imclone (IMCL)- Citigroup Hold » Buy Bill Barrett (BBG)- Wachovia Mkt Perform » Outperform Seattle Genetics (SGEN)- RBC Capital Mkts Sector Perform » Outperform National City (NCC)- RBC Capital Mkts Underperform » Sector Perform Bung...	March 20, 2008
Fast Money Recap	Word on the StreetWord VideoTomorrow's TradeJeffery Harte from Sandler O'Neill joined the show to talk about big money center banks. He talked about the fact that there are sharks in the water so go forward with caution. Investment banks offer more attractive opportunities in his view. Harte talked about quality of management and said to look at U.S. Bancorp (USB) and JP Morgan (JPM). Najarian likes Goldman Sachs (GS) as it is best of breed but also look at Morgan Stanley (MS).Is the $1,000 ...	March 19, 2008
Monster's Guidance is Not Guidance	Monster Worldwide (MNST), which suddenly saw the light at the end of last year and decided it would no longer issue guidance, "corrected" analysts yesterday on what number they should plug into their models for Q1 operating expenses. This "correction" should have the result of reducing the non-GAAP EPS by about half of what analysts currently projected for the quarter. Below are a rough snapshot of consensus estimates before the announcement....	March 19, 2008
Analyst downgrades: Priceline.com, Monster, Internap	Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Sara Lee Corp (SLE), Monster Worldwide (MNST), Kraft Foods'A' (KFT)MOST NOTEWORTHY: Priceline.com, Monster and Internap were today's noteworthy downgrades: Susquehanna downgraded Priceline.com (NASDAQ: PCLN) to Neutral from Positive as they believe upside may be difficult given the macro environment, competition, and currency headwinds. JP Morgan lowered Monster (NASDAQ: MNST) to Neutral from Overweight following the com...	March 19, 2008

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