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CORRECTION: Probe Finds Analysts Pushing Stocks They Privately Bad-Mouthed.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2002

By Deborah Lohse, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 12--The story slugged SJ-ANALYSTS, filed for Apr. 12 by KRT Business News, was an early edition of the story.

The updated and published version follows. Please delete the version sent previously.

Apr. 12--To small investors, stock analysts said "buy," "buy," "buy."

In private e-mails, they called the same stocks "dogs," "toast" or "junk."

A major investigation into the practices of Wall Street analysts during the tech boom has unearthed what may be the most explosive evidence yet that they misled the public. Even as they boosted stocks to bring in lucrative business from the same companies, they trashed many of those stocks among...

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