Today's Research Highlights

March 9, 2010

This is the Market Digest for Tuesday, March 9, 2010, with analysis of the financial markets and comments on Iowa Telecommunications Services Inc., UIL Holdings Corp., Hot Topic Inc., Intel Corp., American International Group Inc. and MetLife Inc.

In this Issue:

*Change in Rating: Iowa Telecommunications Services Inc.: Downgrading to SELL; trading in line with WIN offer (Joseph Bonner)

*Focus List: UIL Holdings Corp.: Reiterating BUY and raising target price to $34 (Gary Hovis)

*Growth Stock: Hot Topic Inc.: Maintaining HOLD on challenging outlook (Erin Smith)

*Growth Stock: Intel Corp.: Intel Corp.: Itanium 9300 released, new ATOM processors (Jim Kelleher)

*Value Stock: American In ternational Group Inc.: Restructuring a work in progress; reiterating HOLD (John Eade)

*Value Stock: MetLife Inc.: Boosting EPS estimates and target price (John Eade)