Goldman Sachs Research Notes (JAN 24, 2007)

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Goldman Sachs changed estimates in the human resource and job seeking services operators:  Raised estimates on Kforce (KFRC), MPS (MPS), Robert Half (RHI); Lowered estimates on Kelly (KELYA), Manpower (MAN).

Goldman downgraded Yahoo! (YHOO) to Neutral; trimmed earnings estimates on from $0.91 to $0.86, but next year is now $1.06 instead of $0.96.

Recent IPO Isilon (ISLN) started as Neutral, not any great coverege elsewhere either.

Goldman Sachs also raised estimates on SSeagate (STX), Sun Micro (SUNW), Coach (COH), Raymond James (RJF), Blackrock (BLK), Hyperion Solutions (HYSL).  It further trimmed estimates on Kinder Morgan Mgmt. (KMR), Kinder Morgan Partners (KMP), UAL (UAUA), AMD (AMD), Citrix (CTXS), Zions Bancorp (ZION), National City (NCC), J&J (JNJ), CSG Systems (CSGS), Broadcom (BRCM), QLogic (QLGC), Tellabs (TLAB).

Goldman believes the State of the Union speech was mildly bullish for energy; mainly on the expansion of SPR, maintains a Neutral rating coverage on the sector; thinks new fuel standards will take some time to lower growth rates in oil.  They also think corn-based ethanol cannot come close to fulfilling target cuts on oil.

Bank of America (BAC) maintained Buy.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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