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Tue Apr 8, 2008 2:20pm EDT

Stocks

   
 Newstar Financial      Goldman Sachs     Cuts price target to
$6 from $9
 (NEWS.O) 
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 ------------ New York Community     Citigroup         Adds to
small/mid-cap target list
 Bancorp (NYB.N)  [ID:nBNG258825]
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 ------------ Nortel Networks NT.N UBS               Cuts
price target to $8.80 from $11;
                                       keeps neutral rating
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 ------------ NRG Energy (NRG.N)     Lehman            Cuts
price target to $55 from $56;
                                       has overweight
rating
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 ------------ Ntelos (NTLS.O)        Friedman          Starts
with outperform rating,                                       
  reports theflyonthewall.com
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 ------------ NuStar GP Holdings     Citigroup         Raises
to buy from hold
 (NSH.N) 
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 ------------ Och Ziff Capital       Goldman Sachs     Cuts to
neutral from buy
 (OZM.N)
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 ------------ Pacific Sunwear of     Wachovia          Raises
to outperform from market  California (PSUN.O)                 
 
 perform
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 ----------- Paetec Holding         Friedman          Starts
with an outperform rating,
 (PAET.O)                                 reports
theflyonthewall.com
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 ------------ Petrohawk Energy       Merrill Lynch     Starts
with buy rating; price target  (HK.N)
     $27, reports theflyonthewall.com 
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 ----------- Quiksilver (ZQK.N)     S&P Equity        Cuts to
hold from buy
                     Research
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 ------------ Seaspan Corp (SSW.N)   Wachovia          Raises
to outperform from market                                      
 
 perform
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 ----------- Secure Computing       Jefferies         Cuts
price target to $7 from $9;  SCUR.O                          
  keeps hold rating
                     Deutsche Bank     Cuts price target to
$4.75 from $5
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 ----------- Summer Infant          Lazard            Starts
with buy rating and $5.50 (SUMR.O)                            
price target
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 ------------ Teck Cominco (TCKb.TO) UBS               Raises
price target to C$53 from
 C$49; keeps buy rating
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 ------------ THQ (THQI.O)           Citigroup         Adds to
small/mid-cap target list
 [ID:nBNG258825]
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 ------------ Time Warner Telecom    Friedman          Starts
with an outperform rating,
 (TWTC.O)                                 reports
theflyonthewall.com
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 ------------ Urbana (URBa.TO)       Blackmont         Starts
with buy rating 
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 ----------- Ulta Salon Cosmetics   Baird             Starts
with outperform rating; price  & Fragrance (ULTA.O)
     target of $18
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 ----------- Verigy (VRGY.O)        Oppenheimer       Starts
with perform rating, reports
     theflyonthewall.com
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 ----------- Websense (WBSN.O)      Friedman          Cuts
price target to $19 from $21;                                  
 
  keeps market perform rating 
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 ----------- Western Alliance       Goldman Sachs     Cuts
price target to $15 from $17;  Bancorp (WAL.N)                 
 
  has neutral rating
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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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