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On this week’s earnings preview I wrote this in regards to Deere (DE):

Major ag equipment player Deere (DE) - I don’t own the equipment stocks anymore; at some point the rising cost of steel, petrol products and the like will be hurting the bottom line unless they can pass all the costs along to farmers - over the next year if inflation does not abate this is the type of company who could see profit margins squeezed simply from the constant increase in input costs.

Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, SLM Corp (SLM)

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Filed under: Before the bell, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Valero Energy (VLO)

Goldman Sachs upped Agco (NYSE:AG) to "buy" from "neutral" and downgraded CNH Global (NYSE:CNH) from "buy" to "neutral" according to MarketWatch.

UBS downgraded HSBC (NYSE:HBC) to "neutral" to "buy" according to Briefing.com. The news service also reports that Morgan Stanley downgraded Valero (NYSE:VLO) to "neutral" from "overweight".

Douglas A. McIntyre is an editor at 247wallst.com.

Malthusian thought of the day; 7 million net new humans are being added to the Earth every month. Or put another way; the entire population of the US is added every 4 years.

Stocks I’m watching this week, I don’t see any huge multinational names out there early in the week.

Monday
CNOOC (CEO) and China Petroleum & Chemical (SNP) - 2 Chinese “oil” stocks

Compass Minerals (CMP) - this “salt” stock is simply relentless - mentioned here [Mar 3: Who Knew? Salt?]

Covance (CVD) - yet another of the contract research outsource outfits.