For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – October 21, 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: Texas Instruments (TXN), State Street Corporation (STT), Zions Bancorporation (ZION), Comerica Inc. (CMA) and Regions Financial (RF).

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Here are highlights from Tuesday’s AnalystBlog:

TI Beats; Guidance Conservative

Texas Instruments (TXN) reported third quarter results that beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 3 cents. Revenue beat the consensus by 2.1%.

Revenue of $2.88 billion was up 17.2% sequentially, the second straight quarter of 17%+ growth. However, revenue declined 15.0% on a

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Regions Financial (RF) reported a third quarter loss of $437.0 million or 37 cents per diluted share, worse than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of 26 cents per share. Last year, the company reported a net income of $95 million -- a profit of 13 cents per share. The results suffered mainly due to increased loan loss provisioning, reflective of continued underlying economic weakness and the related loss implications to Regions' loan portfolio. Regions reported a net interest margin of 2.73%, up 11 basis points sequentially, benefiting from continued low-cost deposit growth, especially in non-interest bearing products and improving loan spreads due to better pricing discipline. As a result, taxable equivalent net interest income increased 1.7% sequentially to $845.0 million. According to management, dramatically falling interest rates have worked as a primary headwind for net interest income over the past few quarters. ...