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On the US markets Tuesday, the entire property and casualty industry was way down as MBIA, Inc. (MBI) was downgraded to Underweight by JPMorgan on Monday, August 10-09 to "underweaght".

$15.32 0.53 (3.58%) http://www.thestreet.com/quote/BAC/details/analyst-ratings.html

Company Symbol Brokerage Firm Downgrade From To (Target) Burger King BKC JP Morgan Overweight Neutral ($19) F.N.B. Corp FNB Sterne Agee Buy Neutral Huron Consulting HURN Deutsche Securities Buy Hold Huron Consulting HURN Oppenheimer Outperform Underperform Huron Consulting HURN Robert W. Baird Neutral Underperform ($15) Huron Consulting HURN Sun Trust Rbsn Humphrey Buy Neutral Huron Consulting HURN William Blair Outperform Mkt Perform McCormick & Schmick's MSSR Piper Jaffray Neutral Underweight Mortons Restaurant Group MRT Piper Jaffray Neutral Underweight O'Reilly Auto ORLY FBR Capital Mkt Perform Underperform Sovran Self Storage SSS Oppenheimer Perform Underperform ($22) Total S.A. TOT UBS Buy Neutral United Therapeutics UTHR JP Morgan Overweight Neutral Vectren VVC Citigroup Buy Hold Vectren VVC Robert W. Baird Outperform Neutral ($26) VisionChina Media VISN Susquehanna Financial Positive Neutral

Baidu.com BIDU UBS Sell Neutral Ducommun DCO Jesup & Lamont Hold Buy ($20) Education Realty Trust EDR KeyBanc Capital Mkts Hold Buy ($6) J. Crew JCG Brean Murray Hold Buy ($35) Marvel Entertainment MVL Caris Average Above Average ($46) NASDAQ NDAQ Pali Research Sell Neutral Orbitz OWW Benchmark Hold Buy ($4) Priceline.com PCLN Benchmark Hold Buy ($147) Sappi Limited SPP UBS Sell Neutral Sirona Dental Systems SIRO Robert W. Baird Neutral Outperform ($33) http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/calendar/ratings/current.asp

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...

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) 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 ...