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CANADA RESEARCH SUMMARY: Dec 4 1534 GMT

Thu Dec 4, 2008 10:34am EST

Stocks

   
 Following is a summary of research actions on Canadian
companies reported by  Reuters on Thursday. Stock entries are
in alphabetical order.
 For a summary of research on S&P 500 companies, double click
on [RCH/US]
 For a summary of research on non-S&P 500 companies, double
click on [RCH/US2]
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 ------------ STOCK                  RESEARCH BY       ACTION
 Arc Energy Trust       Credit Suisse     Starts with neutral;
Price target of
 (AET_u.TO)                               C$20
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 ------------ Baytex Energy Trust    RBC               Cuts
price target to C$21 from C$23;
 (BTE_u.TO)                               rating sector
perform
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 ------------ Canadian Western       Dundee            Cuts
price target to C$16.00 from
 Bank (CWB.TO)                            C$17.00; rating
neutral              
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 ----------- Certicom Corp CIC.TO Blackmont         Raises to
speculative buy from hold
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 ------------ Conjuchem              Dundee            Cuts to
neutral from buy
 Biotechnologies Inc (CJB.TO)
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 ------------ Corel Corp (CRE.TO)    Piper Jaffray     Cuts to
neutral from buy, reports
 (CREL.O)                                 theflyonthewall.com
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 ------------ Energy Savings Income  Haywood           Raises
to sector outperform from
 Fund SIF_u.TO                          sector perform
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 ------------ Equitable Group Inc    Scotia            Cuts to
sector underperform from
 (ETC.TO)                                 sector perform
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 ------------ First National         Scotia            Cuts to
sector perform from sector
 Financial Income Fund (FN_u.TO)          outperform
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 ------------ Gildan Activewear Inc  Paradigm          Raises
to buy from hold
 (GIL.TO) (GIL.N)
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 ------------ Osisko Mining Corp     Dundee            Cuts
price target to C$4.80 from
 (OSK.TO)                                 C$5.80; rating buy
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 ------------ Pacific Northern Gas   BMO               Cuts
price target to C$17 from C$18;
 (PNG.TO)                                 rating market
perform
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 ------------ Qustream Corp (QVC.V)  Dundee            Cuts to
neutral from buy
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 ------------ Research in Motion     Paradigm          Cuts
price target to C$85 from C$190;
 Ltd (RIM.TO)                             rating strong buy
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 ------------ Sceptre Investment     Scotia            Raises
to sector outperform from
 Counsel Ltd (SZ.TO)                      sector perform
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 ------------ Tundra Semiconductor   RBC               Cuts
price target to C$5.25 from C$7;
 TUN.TO                                 rating outperform
                     Dundee            Cuts price target to
C$5.80 from
                                       C$6.50; rating buy
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 ------------ Yamana Gold (YRI.TO)   Raymond James     Starts
with outperform rating
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 ------------ ((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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