{"id":524875,"date":"2010-04-12T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:421918"},"modified":"2010-04-12T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T13:13:00","slug":"greece-palm-ubs-upgrades-downgrades-%e2%80%93-vialoux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/524875","title":{"rendered":"Greece, Palm, UBS, upgrades & downgrades \u2013 Vialoux"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. equity index futures are mixed this morning. S&P 500 futures are down one point in pre-market trading. Index futures moved higher overnight on news that European Union financial ministers and the International Monetary Fund have offered a bailout package for Greece\u2019s sovereign debt valued at $40 billion. However, Greece has yet to announce its intention to accept the package. <\/p>\n

Palm gained 8% on news that the company is available for sale. <\/p>\n

UBS added 4% after announcing positive first quarter guidance.<\/p>\n

Dyncorp jumped 48% after accepting a friendly takeover offer valued at $1.5 billion from Cerberus Capital. <\/p>\n

Texas Instruments gained 2% after Credit Suisse upgraded the stock from Neutral to Outperform. Target was raised from $24 to $32. <\/p>\n

Freeport McMoran Copper and Gold slipped 1% after the stock was downgraded from Buy to Hold by Deutche Bank<\/p>\n

Caterpillar added 1% after RW Baird raised its rating from Neutral to Outperform. Target is $88. <\/p>\n

Arch Coal improved 2% after Citigroup lifted its forecast for bulk commodities including metallurgical coal. Arch Coal was upgraded from Hold to Buy. <\/p>\n

Thomson Reuters eased 1% after Morgan Stanley downgraded the stock from Overweight to Equal Weight. <\/p>\n

Gap Stores added 1% after Piper Jaffrey upgraded the stock from Neutral to Overweight. Target was raised from $22 to $30.<\/p>\n

Canadian National Railway was downgraded by Stifel Nicolaus from Buy to Hold.  <\/p>\n

Don Vialoux, chartered market technician, is the author of a free
\ndaily report on equity markets, sectors, commodities, equities and
\nExchange-Traded Funds. For more visit Don Vialoux's Web site<\/a><\/i>   <\/p>\n

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U.S. equity index futures are mixed this morning. S&P 500 futures are down one point in pre-market trading. Index futures moved higher overnight on news that European Union financial ministers and the International Monetary Fund have offered a bailout package for Greece\u2019s sovereign debt valued at $40 billion. However, Greece has yet to announce its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4059,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4059"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}