For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL - May 6, 2009 - Zacks Equity Research picks Sierra Wireless (SOHU) as Bull of the Day and CenturyTel (CTL) as Bear of the Day. In addition, the analysts at Zacks Equity Research discuss the latest on Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC) and Morgan Stanley (MS).

Full analysis of all these stocks is available at: http://at.zacks.com/?id=2678

Bull of the Day

Sohu.com, Inc. (SOHU) is the second-largest Internet portal and one of the most well-known online brands in China. Sohu's pipeline for its new online games remains strong and is expected to drive meaningful growth in late 2009 and 2010.

The company spun-off part of its gaming division Changyou.com via an ADS offering, which is expected to increase its user base and help gain shares in the MMORPG (massively multi-player online role-playing game) market. We are also encouraged by the company's growing cash

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Highlights include Bank of America Corp. (BAC), Citigroup, Inc. (C), Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC), SunTrust Banks, Inc. (STI), Regions Financial Services, Inc. (RF), American International Group, Inc. (AIG) and Morgan Stanley (MS).The much-awaited results on the stress tests have been delayed till Thursday and the market currently is rife with rumors, speculations, "leaked reports" and denials-on which banks will "fail" the stress test.Among the banks that are being reported to be in need of more capital are Bank of America (BAC), Citigroup (C), Wells Fargo (WFC), SunTrust (STI) and Regions Financial (RF). The banks are currently negotiating with the regulators over the amount of capital Treasury is going to require them to raise -- in other words, they are trying to convince the regulators that they are healthier and better-capitalized than they actually ...