Notable Analyst Rating Changes 10/9: HRC, PTV, ORCL Upgraded; X, AKS, GOOG, CBS Downgraded

October 9, 2008 10:02 AM EDT

UPGRADES:
Soleil Securities upgrades Hill-Rom Holdings (NYSE: HRC) from Trading Sell to Hold. Price target $25.

J.P. Morgan upgrades Pactiv (NYSE: PTV) from Neutral to Overweight.

Societe Generale upgrades Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) from Sell to Hold.

For daily real-time Upgrades go to http://www.streetinsider.com/Upgrades

DOWNGRADES:
Goldman Sachs downgrades U.S. Steel (NYSE: X) and Steel Dynamics (Nasdaq: STLD) from Buy to Neutral. The firm also downgraded AK Steel (NYSE: AKS) from Neutral to Sell

Soleil Securities downgrades Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) from Buy to Hold and lowers their price target from $580 to $350.

Soleil Securities downgrades CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) from Buy to Hold. Price target lowered from $30 to $12.

For daily real-time Downgrades go to http://www.streetinsider.com/Downgrades

NEW COVERAGE:
Stanford Group initiates coverage on American Superconductor (Nasdaq: AMSC) with a Hold rating.

Stanford Group initiates coverage on Bidz.com (Nasdaq: BIDZ) with a Hold rating.

RBC Capital initiates coverage on Arena Resources (NYSE: ARD) with an Outperform rating. Price target $52.

For daily real-time New Coverage go to http://www.streetinsider.com/New+Coverage


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AKS 25.08

+6.04 +31.72%
Volume: 440,420
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AMSC 25.47

-0.65 -2.49%
Volume: 349,608
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ARD 29.94

-1.24 -3.98%
Volume: 438,326
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BIDZ 2.91

+0.06 +2.11%
Volume: 47,300
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CBS 25.19

+18.25 +262.97%
Volume: 448,050
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GOOG 408.49

-10.50 -2.51%
Volume: 2,517,630
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HRC 15.59

-0.52 -3.23%
Volume: 537,360
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ORCL 21.04

-0.70 -3.22%
Volume: 27,417,856
Track ORCL

PTV 29.83

+8.04 +36.90%
Volume: 436,946
Track PTV

STLD 14.34

-0.34 -2.32%
Volume: 5,107,418
Track STLD

X 28.76

-6.03 -17.33%
Volume: 442,805
Track X


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