Stocks To Open Higher

Stocks appear set to open higher
Tuesday.

According a report from CNBC, a plane
may have crashed into one of the Twin Towers (World Trade Center) in New York
City. Based on reports from witnesses, it appears a twin-engine plane crashed
into the North Tower.

According to a report in the Wall
Street Journal,
Amazon.com
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will align with Target
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to
sell goods over the Internet. The alliance should increase the number of
products AMZN has to offer.

Home Depot
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has chosen Ariba
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to manage its corporate spending and to increase procurement.

Lehman Brothers upgraded Goldman Sachs
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from Buy to Strong Buy.

TRW Inc.
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has won the Army
guardrail sensor contract worth approximately $13 million.

Symantec Corp.
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was
downgraded by FAC/Equities to Neutral.

FAC/Equities intitiated coverage on
Netegrity
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with a Neutral rating.

WR Hambrech downgraded Vitesse
Semiconductor
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to Buy.

Macromedia
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announced that
its Flash Play 5 will be packaged with all versions of Microsoft
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Windows XP operating systems.

Salomon Smith Barney downgraded a
number of telecom equipment companies: PMC-Sierra
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from Buy to
Outperform, Vitesse Semiconductor
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and JDS Uniphase
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from
Buy to Neutral, and Ciena
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, Juniper Networks
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and Corning
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from Outperform to Neutral. The company, however, reiterated its Buy rating on
Applied Micro Circuits
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.

Credit Suisse First Boston downgraded
Newport Corp.
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from Buy to Hold.

UBS Warburg upgraded Minnesota Mining
& Manufacturing from Buy to Strong Buy.

Allied Waste
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was downgraded by
Merrill Lynch on its near-term rating from Neutral to Reduce.

ABN Amro upgraded Pharmaceutical
Product Development
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to Buy from Add.