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DEUTSCHE BANK CUTS RATING ON SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS.

AsiaPulse News, December, 2004

SEOUL, Dec 2 Asia Pulse - Deutsche Bank on Thursday downgraded its recommendation on shares of Samsung Electronics Co. (KSE:005930), the world's largest manufacturer of memory chips, to "sell" from "hold," citing short-term concerns about falling memory chip prices and flat-panel screen overproduction.

"Short-term negative factors have continuously overshadowed long-term positiveness," Yook Dong-jo, an analyst at Deutsche Bank, said in a research note. This was the first time in two years that a foreign investment bank downgraded a rating on Samsung Electronics stock.

The analyst expects spot prices of memory chips to fall 40 per cent to 55 per cent over the next two to three months. Samsung Electronics, which is also the world's largest liquid crystal...

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