JP Morgan Sell Call On National Bank Of Greece

The following posting on Zero Hedge just needs to be highlighted:

After 70% Plunge, JPMorgan Cuts National Bank Of Greece From Buy To Sell

• This is Wall Street value added at its purest. The day when the stock price of National Bank of Greece (NBG) is trading within millimeters of its all time low set during the March 2009 lows, and following a 70% straight decline from highs hit in September of last year, JPMorgan analyst Paul Formanko has officially submitted his bid for the client wealth destroyer of the century title (despite the guaranteed shoe-in of every Goldman Sachs "sellside analyst" for this title), by downgrading the soon to be insolvent Greek firm (which as even Formanko acknowledges has >200% of core equity exposure to GGBs) from Overweight to Underweight. The stock which now trades at around €10/share was initiated by Paul with an Overweight in May 2008, a rating from which he has never wavered, with just his price target moving up and down. His most recent PT on NBG: €25/share. Yet something happened between yesterday and today: Paul decided that the firm is no longer worth his old price target... or even half of it. His new expected price: €9.80, a 60% discount for all those who were dumb enough to listen to Paul as recently as yesterday, not just when he slapped a €45 price target at initiation in May 2008, or a €36 PT in September of 2009. And just to prove that Paul is man of action, he has also gone and downgraded every single Greek bank in his coverage universe from Overweight or Neutral to Underweight with a comparable price target cut.

Do read the rest of the posting: here