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Stocks Upgrade-Downgrade July-30-09

Company Symbol Brokerage Firm Upgrade From To (Target) Alvarion ALVR Piper Jaffray Underweight Neutral Brandywine Realty BDN Argus Hold Buy ($12) Callaway Golf ELY Stifel Nicolaus Hold Buy Cliffs Natural Resources CLF BMO Capital Markets Market Perform Outperform Dow Chemical DOW Citigroup Hold Buy Equity Res EQR FBR Capital Underperform Mkt Perform Equity Res EQR JP Morgan Underweight Neutral HeartWare HTWR Wedbush Morgan Neutral Outperform ($31) ManTech MANT Jesup & Lamont Hold Buy ($57) Motorola MOT Davenport Reduce/Sell Neutral Nice Systems NICE Oscar Gruss Hold Buy ($32) Park-Ohio PKOH Morgan Joseph Hold Buy ($7) Penn Natl Gaming PENN SMH Capital Neutral Accumulate ($36) Quaker Chemical KWR Janney Mntgmy Scott Neutral Buy Royal Caribbean RCL Barclays Capital Underweight Equal Weight Tyco Electronics TEL UBS Neutral Buy USANA USNA Canaccord Adams Hold Buy Westpac Banking Corp. WBK Citigroup Hold Buy http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/calendar/ratings/current.asp Down GradeCo

Standpoint Research initiates BAC with a Hold July-24-09

MSN Money - USA Standpoint Research initiates BAC with a Hold and price target of $18 saying although there is still some uncertainty surrounding this stock

Bank of America (BAC: NYSE) Down-Graded By Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller

Bank of America (BAC: NYSE) By Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller ($12.89, July 20, 2009) WE ARE DOWNGRADING SHARES of Bank of America (ticker: BAC) to In Line from Outperform, based on our view that: Bank of America continues to struggle to generate positive earnings per share on a core basis, which is likely to continue in second-half 2009 on credit and core revenue headwinds; tangible book value (TBV) is expected to decline in the third quarter and fourth quarter and year-end 2010 to be below current estimates; "normalized" EPS will likely pushed out and less conviction around what norm ...

Stock Upgrades July 8, 2009

Stock Upgrades July 8, 2009 - DRYS FSLR AMZN July 8, 2009 - Here are some upgrades in the stock market today: Discuss Stocks - http://stockstobuy.org DryShips, Inc. (DRYS) - DryShips upgraded to Outperform from Underperform at Credit Suisse - Dryships stock is currently up over 5% in pre market - price target $8 Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) - Amazon.com upgraded at Susquehanna - weak dollar contributed to this upgrade to positive. AMZN receives a $100 price target. First Solar, Inc. (FSLR) - First Solar upgraded to Buy from Accumulate at ThinkEquity - price target $180 - FSLR trying to break $150 in pre market so far. Peabody Energy Corp. (BTU) - Upgraded at Goldman Sachs - Price Target $45 Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (FCX) - FCX upgraded at Citigroup with a $58 price target. Skyworks Solutions Inc. (SWKS) - SWKS upgraded at Raymond James to Strong Buy http://daytradingstockblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/stock-upgrades-july-8-2009-drys-fslr.html