Upgrades

DMND – Diamond Foods upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform at Northland Securities

BEAV – BE Aerospace upgraded to Buy from Neutral at UBS

MU – Micron upgraded to Neutral from Sell at Goldman

BRCM – Broadcom upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform at William Blair

CAH – Cardinal Health upgraded to Buy from Hold at Citigroup

CF – CF Industries initiated with a Hold at Citigroup

TDC – Teradata initiated with a Buy at Mizuho

SU – Suncor Energy upgraded to Overweight from Equal Weight at Barclays

WCRX – Warner Chilcott upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Goldman

MCK – McKesson upgraded to Buy from Hold at Citigroup

CLD – Cloud Peak Energy upgraded to Overweight from Equal Weight at Morgan Stanley

Downgrades

CAT – Caterpillar downgraded to Outperform from Strong Buy at Raymond James

UBS – UBS AG downgraded to Hold from Buy at Collins Stewart

LRCX – Lam Research downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Goldman

AMD – Advanced Micro downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Nomura

RENN – Renren initiated with an Underperform at Macquarie

CPT – Camden Property downgraded to Neutral from Buy at UBS

GR – Goodrich initiated with a Hold at Keybanc

PEP – PepsiCo downgraded to Underperform from Outperform at Credit Agricole

AIR – AAR Corp target lowered to $26 at Wedbush

FRX – Forest Labs downgraded to Sell from Neutral at Goldman

TIVO – TiVo downgraded to Average from Above Average at Caris

HIW – Highwoods Prop downgraded to Hold at Stifel Nicolaus

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Gapping up

AUY +1.8%, GOLD +1.7%, GFI +1.7%, SVM +1.6%, NGD +1%, LEN +1.4%, GR +20.6%, WR +1.5%, DVAX +8.6%,

TYC +3.5%, SGMO +3%, WR +1.5%, AEM +0.8%, ABX +0.7%, SLW +0.7%, GLD +0.5%

Gapping down

JKS -11% , BHP -3.1%, ART -5.7%,  BBL -4.1%, LYG -7.2%, HBC -3.2%, UBS -2.4%, CS -5.1%,  CAT -2.2%, BBVA -5.0%, AMAT-3.6%, TOT -2.8%, AMD -2.8%, RDS.A -2.5%, SDRL -3.9%, NOK -3.8%, TEF -3.8%, VALV -23.9%, PEP -1%, E -7%,  BP -2.5%, UBS -2.4%, DB -1.9%,MT -5.9%, CS -5.1%,  FRX -2.4% , RIO -4.3%, SAP -4.3%,

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In Play 

On the Wires

 

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Structural change is warranted to avoid serious problems

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Ratcheting coming to a nervous equity market soon…. 

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Not your salary….

talk about the fucking dole

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Whitney sees some decent opportunities despite have a cautious tone…

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Now is a good time to ask if the market is resilient for forward looking abilities, easy low volume manipulation, or in the throws of a last hopes/ last ditch attempt of rallying out of technically negative territory.

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Hopefully, more reform will take place on a global scale. Cheers to Kweku Adoboli

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Clean house

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hahaha you’ll love this solution

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Fuck Europe. 

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“It was a nice ride kid”

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So if your not sure what to do, with your money and investment portfolio, then it does not hurt to sit back and watch; in time you can pounce on the right opportunities at the right time.

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Selling in the first half hour this morning seems like the right move.

At any rate, i’m done for the weekend so have a good one folks.

Here is some insight and a different point of view on Greece and the debt problems of Europe.

PEACE

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Think of how many subsidies exist like this because sheople pay not attention.

No wonder we have deficit problems

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Good commentary on macro events

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Price cuts abound yo…

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A trading environment indeud… 

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Did not like that break of $1790-$1800. So given hopes for Europe currently and ig a TARP style solution comes about gold may fiddle around for a year imo.

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