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Downgrading Monster Worldwide on Deteriorating Employment Outlook

Excellent analysis. This stock remains a terrible investment at current levels, unless you believe take-over is imminent. Current management professional, but lack insight - and pig-headed enough to not be looking for help from the right parties. US interests (Google, AOL) should be more interested in the main advertising game, not classifieds. Others (News? WPO?) are potential brokers. Non-US interests in this sector are quite strong, but financing a likely problem for all but those tied to recruiters. Most likely scenario is uninformed management continues to lose ground in US, be lucky offshore, and takeover does not take place. Stock to drift to ~$20 unless institutional investors get active, and approach the less-obvious owner-managers of this business. Institutional holders are among the smartest on the block and globally - why don't they act?