For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – August 4, 2009 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: 3M (MMM), Apple (AAPL), IBM (IBM), Texas Instruments (TXN) and Boston Properties, Inc. (BXP).

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Here are highlights from Monday’s Analyst Blog:

ISM Continues to Improve

It looks like the economy could be on the cusp of moving from a series of vicious cycles to a series of virtuous cycles. There will still be substantial headwinds from consumers who have lower incomes and a greater desire to same more of what they

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According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Chairman Mort Zuckerman of Boston Properties, Inc. (BXP), a leading real estate investment trust (REIT), intends to sell 9% of his total stake in the company. The deal would involve a sale of about 1 million shares of the company and is likely to generate $50 million for Zuckerman. The proceeds would be utilized to purchase printing presses for his New York daily, The Daily News. The timing of the sale has raised speculation among investors about the profitability of Boston Properties. Most of the investors view the sale as a move by the Chairman to have a better investment profile, raising fears that probably the newspaper was a better investment than the REIT. Boston Properties develops, redevelops, acquires, manages, operates and owns a diverse portfolio of Class A office, industrial and hotel properties in the ...

Are we done with this recession? I missed this discussion of a few days ago, featuring an economist, Nouriel Roubini of New York University, an historian, Niall Fergusson of Harvard, and a billionaire, real estate investor Mort Zuckerman, debating what is to come. Rather late than never, as the clip makes for good viewing material.

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