Down Opening

Stocks appear set to open lower on
Monday, Christmas Eve.

The markets will be trading in an
abbreviated trading session which will close at 1:00 PM.

Thomas Weisel Partners upgraded
Pegasus Solutions
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from Market Perform to Attractive and put a price
target of $15 on the lodging stock.

InVision Technologies
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was
trading higher in pre-market activity on the news that a man on an American
Airlines flight had plastic explosives. INVN develops, manufactures and supports
explosive detection systems based on computed tomography technology.

Beer company Adolph Coors
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said it will acquire from Interbrew its Carling business portion of Bass Brewers
for $1.7 billion.

DB Alex Brown downgraded Sepracor
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from Buy to Strong Buy.

Lucent Technologies
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has agreed
to sell its customer care and billing unit to CSG Systems
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for $300
million in cash.