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US RESEARCH SUMMARY-S&P 500 April 29 1240 GMT

Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:41am EDT
 Following is a summary of research actions on S&P 500 companies reported by 
 Reuters on Wednesday. Stock entries are in alphabetical order. 
 For a summary of research on non-S&P 500 companies, double click on [RCH/US2] 
 For a summary of research on Canadian companies, double click on [RCH/CA] 
 See bottom of the table for sector changes. 
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 STOCK                  RESEARCH BY       ACTION 
 Bristol-Myers Squibb   Goldman Sachs     Cuts to neutral rating; removes from 
                                   Americas conviction buy list;  
                                          cuts price target to $23 from $25 
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 Coca-Cola Enterprises  Deutsche Bank     Raises price target to $17 from $16; 
                                   rating hold 
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 Comerica        Hilliard Lyons    Raises to neutral from underperform 
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 D.R. Horton     Goldman Sachs     Removes from conviction buy list; 
                                          keeps buy rating 
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 FPL Group              Jefferies         Cuts price target to $50 from $54; 
                                   rating hold 
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 IBM                    JP Morgan         Raises price target to $109 from  
                                   $98.50; rating overweight 
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 Jacobs Engineering     Jefferies         Cuts price target to $55 from $60; 
 Group                             rating buy 
                        Stifel            Cuts price target to $53 from $55; 
                                          rating buy 
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 KB Home         Goldman Sachs     Raisesprice target to $15 from $11 
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 Lennar Corp     Goldman Sachs     Raises price target to $7 from $6 
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 Lincoln National       Morgan Stanley    Raises to equal-weight from 
                                   underweight 
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 Macy's S          JP Morgan         Cuts to neutral from overweight 
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 McGraw-Hill     Jefferies         Raises price target to $33 from $29; 
                                          rating buy 
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 Office Depot           JP Morgan         Says stock could reach $5 in near 
                                   term; has neutral rating 
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 Omnicom                Bernstein         Raises price target to $28.50 from 
                                   $27.50; rating market perform 
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 Paccar         Jefferies         Raises price target to $38 from $36; 
                                          rating buy 
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 Tellabs        Jefferies         Raises price target to $4.50 from $4; 
                                          rating hold 
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 U.S. Bancorp    Hilliard Lyons    Cuts to neutral from buy 
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 VF Corp         Susquehanna       Cuts to neutral from positive 
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 Whole Foods Market     Morgan            Stanley Cuts to underweight from 
                                  equal weight 
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 Sector Changes: 
 US banks sector        Fox-Pitt          Raises to marketweight from 
                                          underweight  
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  ((Compiled by Tenzin Pema; Bangalore Equities Newsdesk +91 80 4135 5800; 
within U.S. +1 646 223 8780)) 
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