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HireRight (Nasdaq: HIRE) 48% HIGHER; To be acauired by US Investigations Services, LLC for $15.60 per share in cash.

American Superconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: AMSC) 20% HIGHER; Receives $450 Million Follow-On Order from China's Sinovel Wind

United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) 16% HIGHER; approved a "modified Dutch auction" tender offer in which the company intends to offer to purchase up to 27,160,000 shares of its common stock at a price not less than $22.00 nor greater than $25.00 per share. The low and high ends of the price range represent a 12.8% and 28.2

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• JP Morgan downgraded Allegheny Tech (NYSE:ATI), Carpenter Tech (NYSE:CRS) and Haynes (NASDAQ:HAYN) to Neutral from Overweight based on the decline in nickel prices and its impact on nickel-based metals demand on valuation, as they find the risk/reward less attractive following the recent rally and increased raw material costs.
  
• Oppenheimer downgraded shares of Motorola (NYSE:MOT) to Underperform from Pe

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I will get to the point and say yes it is true. When I first read about the stock market, I will admit I was a bit intimidated. Think about it for a moment. The people I saw on television talked, breathed, and lived the stock market. Forget Bachelor Degrees; MBA’s and PhD’s are common on Wall Street. And these PhD’s are not coming from some small university in the Atlantic Ocean. We are dealing with Ivy Leaguer’s who are suppose