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Chemicals Sector

Hot Stocks in This Sector	Dow Chemical Company, Eastman Chemical Company, Gushan Environmental Energy, KMG Chemicals, Innophos Holdings, Monsanto Company, Flotek Industries, Verenium.
Related Sectors	Basic Materials.
Hot Sectors	Investing, Healthcare, Banking, Services, Technology.
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Industries in the Chemicals Sector

• Specialty Chemicals

• Agricultural Chemicals

• Chemicals - Major Diversified

• Synthetics

Chemicals Upgrades

Date	Ticker	Analyst	Old Rating	New Rating
11/11/2009	AWC	Credit Suisse	Underperform	Neutral
11/06/2009	PPO	Ardour Capital	Reduce	Hold
11/03/2009	TRA	BMo Capital	Market Perform	Outperform
10/29/2009	ASH	Susquehanna	Neutral	Positive

Chemicals Downgrades

Date	Ticker	Analyst	Old Rating	New Rating
11/02/2009	IOSP	J.P. Morgan	Overweight	Neutral
10/30/2009	MON	Soleil Securities	Buy	Hold
10/27/2009	SQM	J.P. Morgan	Neutral	Underweight
10/23/2009	POT	CIBC	Outperform	Sector Perform

Chemicals New Coverages

Date	Ticker	Analyst	Rating
11/06/2009	SIAL	Jefferies & Co	Hold
10/15/2009	SOA	BB&T Capital	Hold
10/13/2009	ROC	Sidoti & Co	Buy
10/08/2009	MOS	RBC	Outperform

Chemicals Earnings

Date	Ticker	Actual	Expected	Prev Yr Qtr
11/10/2009	NZYM	-0.03		-0.06
11/10/2009	SDTH	0.09	0.10	0.17
11/09/2009	VRNM	-1.16	-1.90	-24.24
10/14/2009	WDFC	0.46	0.40	0.28
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Stock of the Day

The Chemicals Sector's Monsanto (MON) was InvestorGuide.com's Stock of the Day on 6/24/2009.
Monsanto Reports 14% Decline in Profit
The Monsanto Company (MON: Charts, News, Offers), maker of the popular weed-control herbicide Roundup, reported a 14% decline in its quarterly profit today. The herbicide producer reported that its profit fell to $694 million from $811 million a year earlier. Despite beating Wall Street expectations for the quarter, Monsanto has decided to initiate some drastic, internal adjustments as it tries to halt declining profit. What caused Monsanto's drop in performance? How will this quarter's results impact the company's future? Read more

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