Major investment upgrades/downgrades as of April 3

Every morning, Patria publishes a list of U.S. stocks which had their investment recommendations changed the previous day. In the first part of the table you will find titles with recommendation upgrade, the second part on the contrary presents titles with recommendation downgrade. Previous and current investment rating is included, as well as the name of the rating institution (i.e. investment bank) and/or the target price.

Stock	Company	Target Price	Previous rec.	New rec.	Change
BellSouth	Morgan Stanley	-	Equal-weight	Overweight
Business Objects	CSFB	22.00	Neutral	Outperform
Computer Sciences	UBS Warburg	34.00	Neutral	Buy
Sepracor	Merrill Lynch	25.00	Neutral	Buy
Sypris Solutions	A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc	-	Sell	Hold
AstraZeneca	Merrill Lynch	-	Buy	Neutral
Great Plains Engy	Banc of America Sec	-	Buy	Neutral
ITT Educational	CSFB	29.00	Outperform	Neutral
Johnson & Johnson	A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc	-	Buy	Hold
National Comm	Merrill Lynch	-	Buy	Neutral
SPX Corp	Prudential Securities	34.00	Buy	Hold
Verizon	Morgan Stanley	-	Overweight	Equal-weight