US-RESEARCH/ (NON-S&P500)
Hercules Offshore Goldman Sachs Cuts price target to $5 from $7 (HERO.O) --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Hornbeck Offshore Goldman Sachs Cuts price target to $15 from $23 Services Inc (HOS.N) --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ IberiaBank (IBKC.O) Baird Raises to outperform from neutral --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Iron Mountain (IRM.N) Citigroup Cuts price target to $26 from $31;
rating buy
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------------ Lear Corp (LEA.N) Deutsche Bank Cuts to
sell from hold, reports
theflyonthewall.com --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Life Technologies Barclays Cuts price target to $45 from $50 (LIFE.O) --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Luminex Corp (LMNX.O) Leerink Swann Cuts to market perform from
outperform --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Magna International Deutsche Bank Cuts to sell from hold, reports (MGA.N) (MGa.TO) theflyonthewall.com --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Micros Systems Inc Jefferies Cuts price target to $18 from $21; (MCRS.O) rating hold --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Mohawk Industries Inc Cowen Raises to outperform from neutral (MHK.N) --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ NBTY INC (NTY.N) Wedbush Cuts to hold from buy on gross
margin concerns for Q1 --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Newfield Exploration Barclays Cuts price target to $28 from $33 Co (NFX.N) --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Parametric Technology Jefferies Cuts price target to $12 from $15; (PMTC.O) rating hold --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Patterson UTI Energy Goldman Sachs Cuts to sell from neutral (PTEN.O) --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Pioneer Natural Barclays Cuts price target to $20 from $23; Resources (PXD.N) rating equal weight --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Portland General Goldman Sachs Cuts to neutral from buy Electric (POR.N) --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Pride International Goldman Sachs Cuts price target to $16 from $18 (PDE.N) --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Quicksilver Resources Collins Stewart Starts with buy rating; price (KWK.N) target of $9 --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Ralcorp Holdings Inc BB&T Raises to buy from hold (RAH.N) --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Standard Microsystems Needham Cuts price target to $18 from $26; Corp (SMSC.O) rating buy --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Steel Dynamics Inc S&P Equity Downgrades to hold from buy (STLD.O) --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Tidewater (TDW.N) Goldman Sachs Cuts price target to $32 from $35 --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Treehouse Foods JP Morgan Adds to US focus list (THS.N) --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ TRW (TRW.N) Deutsche Bank Cuts to sell from hold, reports
theflyonthewall.com --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Under Armour Inc Wedbush Cuts to hold from buy (UA.N) --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Urban Outfitters Inc RBC Cuts price target to $20 from $24; (URBN.O) rating outperform --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Varian (VARI.O) Leerink Swann Cuts to market perform rating
Barclays Cuts to underweight from equal
weight
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------------ Volterra Wedbush Cuts
price target to $8 from $9;
Semiconductor (VLTR.O) rating hold
Caris Cuts price target to $10 from $13;
keeps above average
rating
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------------ Williams Pipeline Citigroup Cuts
price target to $15 from $18;
(WMZ.N) rating hold
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------------ Sector Changes:
US regulated and Goldman Sachs Cuts to neutral from
attractive diversified utilities
sector [ID:nBNG16754]
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----------- US Engineering & Goldman Sachs Cuts
view to cautious from neutral Construction Sector
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----------- Mexican Housing Sector Credit Suisse Upgrades
to overweight from
marketweight --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ ((Compiled by Amiteshwar Singh and Mary Meyase; Bangalore Equities Newsdesk +91 80 4135 5800; within U.S. +1 646 223 8780))
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