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at go into a deal and for some of the disclosures made to investors. An SEC spokesman declined to comment, as did representatives for Citigroup and Credit Suisse. In another sign that the SEC has widened its scrutiny of the Wall Street mortgage machine, the agency is looking at whether investors were misled

-fraud lawsuit against Stifel Financial Corp., the broker for the deals, claiming it misled the school districts about the risks of the securities. Stifel has denied any wrongdoing and is fighting the lawsuit. Now, though, the SEC is weighing civil charges against the Royal Bank of Canada unit that cre

erday's laggards the banks rebound and outperform despite mixed results. ING (+10%), DNB (+2%) and SEB Enskilda (+7%) produce strong O4 results with Credit Suisse (-11%) posting large impairments and a O4 loss in what feels like a kitchen sinking exercise. Auto's suffer today as Daimler (-3.8%) produces a 15%

(up) • DA Davidson initiates T (buy) & VZ (neut), GS upgrades WHRNV & downgrades WAB ••• Janney initiates SEAS (neut), Opco initiates PSTG (pert), Stifel upgrades ARCB (buy) & cuts SNCR • Longbow downgrades BWLD & upgrades KMT, Piper downgrades PACB Europe Key Research: ••• Liberum upgrades SDF GY &

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led/priced): Synacor (SYNC) 6.8M shares priced at $5, GSE Holding (GSE) 7M shares priced at $9 Key Research: Barcap intiates GILD (ow) & IDIX (ew), Stifel initiates TIE (hold), SocGen upgrades CS, BB&T initiates MTW (hold) Key Research: Citi downgrades AKS and MASI (sell) & initiates COH/RKT (buy's) &