The Stocks Wall Street Is Watching

The following stocks may be
impacted due to significant news as noted:

Morgan Stanley has upgraded the semiconductor group
to "attractive" from "in-line", and has upgraded individually Intel
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Texas Instruments
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, and Xilinx
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to
"overweight" from "equal-weight". 

Healthcare facilities company LifePoint Hospitals
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has beat its fourth-quarter earnings expectations by $0.08 with
profits of $0.45 per share.

Financial company Prudential has guided lower
for 2003 due to the combining of its retail brokerage with Wachovia
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Retailer Abercrombie and Fitch
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has
beat its fourth-quarter earnings estimates by $0.03 with profits of $0.93 per
share.

Electric utilities company DTE Energy
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has been upgraded by UBS Warburg to "buy" from "neutral".

Computer services
company
Overture Systems
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has had its estimates cut by Salomon Smith Barney due to its current bid for
Alta Vista.

Pre-market action:


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+7%,
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+6%,
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+5%,
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+4%,
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+4%,
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+3.5%,
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+2.1%,
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+2%,
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+0.8%…


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-14%,
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-14%,
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-9%,
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-6%,
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-5.5%,
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-1%,
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-0.8%.