Merrill Lynch analyst Tom Kraemer took the proactive road, typically the one less traveled on Wall Street, and sliced his rating on the shares yesterday to an "intermediate-term neutral" from "accumulate" and lowered his revenue estimates for the third quarter, fiscal 2001 and fiscal 2002, along with his earnings estimates.
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The company supplies components for Apple Computer's iMac, a hot seller in the U.S. But Bernard Tan of Merrill Lynch has downgraded NatSteel's short-term rating to neutral, although he still has a long-term buy on it.
Blame Merrill Lynch, which downgraded Sun to near-term "neutral" from "accumulate, " citing an inventory overhang.
You would think there would be a bunch of red faces, but the stock jockeys just take their ratings from buy to strong buy or from neutral to long- term hold.
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Those raising apprehensions can be reassured that HR and corporate strategy tend to use the term resource in a neutral way, with no implication that people ought to be mechanized.
As long as that level holds firm, the near term technical bias will be neutral to bullish.
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The higher growth would make it easy to finance the higher short-term deficits that non-revenue-neutral tax reform would produce.
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Significantly for the Fed, the new program (which it is inelegantly calling its "term securities lending facility") is designed to be "reserve neutral, " meaning it won't increase the nation's money supply to the point where it sparks inflation.
As with the term resource, HR and corporate strategy also treat behavior in a neutral sense, denoting a measureable set of actions that can enable business outcomes, not something that is to be manipulated through fear or chicanery.
Andrew Burns, head author of the report, said developing countries need to reduce their fiscal vulnerabilities by lowering short-term debt levels, reducing their budget deficits and returning to a more neutral monetary policy stance instead of constantly cutting rates to historic lows.
According to a survey for London First, a business organisation, 59% of firms term the charge's impact on London's economy as positive or neutral, compared with 26% who say it has been negative.
On an intermediate term multi-month basis, the gold market is trapped in a consolidative sideways neutral range.
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Reddoch is currently neutral on Tularik but said in a note to investors this morning that he still likes the company over the longer term.
Considering all this, we maintain a neutral outlook for the U.S. rail carloads of coal, which entails a dip in traffic in near term before gradually increasing.
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