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Analyst Upgrades/Downgrades for July 17, 2006

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The following tables summarize both analyst upgrades/downgrades and subsequent market reaction for July 17, 2006:

Upgrades:

	Company/	From/	Jul 17	Change	52 Wk
Ticker	Brokerage	To	Close	$/%	Hi/Lo
(ADPT)	Adaptec Inc.	Mkt Perform	$4.23	$0.20	$6.70
(ADPT)	Morgan Keegan	Outperform		5.0%	$3.12
(ARRO)	Arrow Internati	Accumulate	$31.36	$1.46	$34.90
(ARRO)	Brean Murray	Strong Buy		4.9%	$27.23
(BBW)	Build-A-Bear Wo	Sell	$20.00	$0.21	$32.90
(BBW)	Rochdale Securi	Hold		1.1%	$19.41
(BEBE)	Bebe Stores, In	Hold	$15.20	$0.75	$29.87
(BEBE)	Brean Murray	Accumulate		5.2%	$13.05
(BIDU)	Baidu.com, Inc.	Hold	$93.04	$5.34	$153.98
(BIDU)	Brean Murray	Accumulate		6.1%	$44.44
(BJ)	BJ's Wholesale	Neutral	$26.66	$0.69	$33.07
(BJ)	UBS	Buy		2.7%	$25.30
(BJ)	BJ's Wholesale	Underperform	$26.66	$0.69	$33.07
(BJ)	Credit Suisse	Neutral		2.7%	$25.30
(BYD)	Boyd Gaming Cor	Peer Perform	$37.41	$1.41	$54.99
(BYD)	Thomas Weisel	Outperform		3.9%	$35.80
(CREE)	Cree Inc.	Strong Sell	$18.59	$0.30	$35.30
(CREE)	Matrix Research	Hold		1.6%	$16.85
(CVC)	Cablevision Sys	Peer Perform	$21.08	$0.45	$31.90
(CVC)	Bear Stearns	Outperform		2.2%	$18.00
(DVA)	DaVita Inc.	Neutral	$49.53	$0.71	$60.70
(DVA)	UBS	Buy		1.5%	$42.98
(EFII)	Electronics for	Hold	$21.03	$1.20	$29.85
(EFII)	Citigroup	Buy		6.1%	$19.50
(FLSH)	M Systems Flash	Sell	$25.68	$0.55	$37.60
(FLSH)	Am Tech/JSA Res	Hold		2.2%	$21.52
(GLT)	PH Glatfelter C	Hold	$15.22	$0.60	$19.84
(GLT)	Deutsche Securi	Buy		4.1%	$12.01
(IFO)	Infosonics Corp	Hold	$7.18	$0.76	$17.31
(IFO)	Kaufman Bros	Buy		11.8%	$1.38
(INSP)	InfoSpace Inc.	Sell	$21.81	$0.86	$36.81
(INSP)	Stanford Resear	Hold		4.1%	$20.50
(JOYG)	Joy Global Inc.	Hold	$38.79	($1.67)	$72.23
(JOYG)	Matrix Research	Buy		-4.1%	$23.71
(K)	Kellogg Co.	Mkt Perform	$48.85	$0.78	$49.14
(K)	William Blair	Outperform		1.6%	$42.41
(LMIA)	LMI Aerospace I	Neutral	$19.28	$0.98	$22.78
(LMIA)	Oppenheimer	Buy		5.4%	$5.40
(LVLT)	Level 3 Communi	Hold	$4.11	$0.07	$6.00
(LVLT)	Needham & Co	Buy		1.7%	$1.87
(MOGN)	MGI Pharma Inc.	Peer Perform	$21.16	$0.58	$27.70
(MOGN)	Bear Stearns	Outperform		2.8%	$15.72
(MRX)	Medicis Pharmac	Underweight	$23.70	$0.86	$35.45
(MRX)	Morgan Stanley	Equal-weight		3.8%	$22.57
(NTRS)	Northern Trust	Sell	$54.08	$0.93	$60.44
(NTRS)	Goldman Sachs	Neutral		1.7%	$47.60
(OAKF)	Oak Hill Financ	Hold	$25.26	($0.04)	$33.59
(OAKF)	KeyBanc Capital	Buy		-0.2%	$25.00
(QCOM)	QUALCOMM Inc.	Neutral	$36.56	$0.19	$53.01
(QCOM)	UBS	Buy		0.5%	$34.78
(RF)	Regions Financi	Underperform	$35.42	$1.29	$36.66
(RF)	Credit Suisse	Neutral		3.8%	$29.16
(RNOW)	Rightnow Techno	Mkt Perform	$14.23	$0.36	$20.83
(RNOW)	Friedman Billin	Outperform		2.6%	$10.13
(SGY)	Stone Energy Co	Underweight	$46.23	($0.40)	$62.50
(SGY)	JP Morgan	Overweight		-0.9%	$38.55
(SHLM)	A. Schulman, In	Buy	$22.00	($0.43)	$25.83
(SHLM)	Matrix Research	Strong Buy		-1.9%	$16.49
(STX)	Seagate Technol	Underweight	$22.90	$0.47	$28.11
(STX)	Morgan Stanley	Equal-weight		2.1%	$13.82
(WFSL)	Washington Fede	Hold	$21.78	($0.17)	$25.07
(WFSL)	McAdams,Wright,	Buy		-0.8%	$21.11

Downgrades:

	Company/	From/	Jul 17	Change	52 Wk
Ticker	Brokerage	To	Close	$/%	Hi/Lo
(AMD)	Advanced Micro	Above Average	$20.92	($0.68)	$42.70
(AMD)	Caris & Company	Average		-3.1%	$19.20
(AVX)	AVX Corp.	Hold	$13.92	($0.36)	$19.90
(AVX)	Am Tech/JSA Res	Sell		-2.5%	$11.27
(C)	Citigroup Inc.	Overweight	$46.40	($1.18)	$50.72
(C)	Prudential	Neutral		-2.5%	$42.91
(CN)	Condor Resource	Outperform	$0.41	$0.02	$1.05
(CN)	Credit Suisse	Neutral		6.4%	$0.38
(CPT)	Camden Property	Buy	$72.86	($1.30)	$76.41
(CPT)	Banc of America	Neutral		-1.8%	$49.56
(CSC)	Computer Scienc	Hold	$50.68	($2.07)	$60.39
(CSC)	Jefferies & Co	Underperform		-3.9%	$43.49
(DADE)	Dade Behring Ho	Buy	$38.91	($0.17)	$43.11
(DADE)	UBS	Neutral		-0.4%	$32.90
(DIS)	Walt Disney Co.	Outperform	$28.60	$0.11	$31.03
(DIS)	Cowen & Co	Neutral		0.4%	$22.89
(DTAS)	Digitas Inc.	Buy	$10.29	($0.33)	$14.99
(DTAS)	Needham & Co	Hold		-3.1%	$9.14
(FDS)	FactSet Researc	Overweight	$42.83	($2.21)	$47.75
(FDS)	Morgan Stanley	Equal-weight		-4.9%	$31.64
(FPO)	First Potomac R	Long-term Buy	$27.46	($0.20)	$30.55
(FPO)	Hilliard Lyons	Neutral		-0.7%	$23.87
(GW)	Grey Wolf Inc.	Buy	$6.85	($0.29)	$8.93
(GW)	Jefferies & Co	Hold		-4.1%	$6.50
(KEM)	KEMET Corp.	Hold	$7.84	($0.36)	$11.58
(KEM)	Am Tech/JSA Res	Sell		-4.4%	$6.48
(MXIM)	Maxim Integrate	Buy	$28.38	($0.12)	$45.91
(MXIM)	Caris & Company	Above Average		-0.4%	$28.31
(NRF)	NorthStar Realt	Buy	$11.63	($0.43)	$12.24
(NRF)	Banc of America	Neutral		-3.6%	$8.89
(NTAP)	Network Applian	Equal-weight	$27.09	$0.17	$38.50
(NTAP)	Morgan Stanley	Underweight		0.6%	$22.50
(PDC)	Pioneer Drillin	Buy	$13.67	($1.26)	$23.06
(PDC)	Jefferies & Co	Hold		-8.4%	$12.60
(PETC)	Petco Animal Su	Outperform	$27.93	$0.04	$28.94
(PETC)	Bear Stearns	Peer Perform		0.1%	$18.00
(PTEN)	Patterson-UTI E	Buy	$23.38	($1.49)	$38.49
(PTEN)	Jefferies & Co	Hold		-6.0%	$23.33
(SFD)	Smithfield Food	Strong Buy	$28.55	($0.19)	$31.47
(SFD)	Matrix Research	Hold		-0.7%	$25.00
(TXI)	Texas Industrie	Strong Buy	$50.05	$0.48	$74.75
(TXI)	Matrix Research	Sell		1.0%	$44.58
(UDRL)	Union Drilling,	Buy	$12.64	($0.97)	$18.63
(UDRL)	Jefferies & Co	Hold		-7.1%	$11.85
(VSH)	Vishay Intertec	Hold	$14.47	($0.68)	$17.46
(VSH)	Am Tech/JSA Res	Sell		-4.5%	$10.77
(VTSS)	Vitesse Semicon	Sector Perform	$1.44	($0.06)	$3.79
(VTSS)	CIBC Wrld Mkts	Sector Underperform		-4.3%	$1.15