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Strategies & Market Trends : Telebras (TBH) & Brazil
TBH 0.956+6.7%3:59 PM EST

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To: Steve Fancy who wrote (11403)1/11/1999 3:18:00 PM
From: Steve Fancy  Read Replies (1) of 22640
 
Deutsche Bank Cuts Brazil's Itausa, Unibanco To Neutral

Dow Jones Newswires

NEW YORK -- Deutsche Bank downgraded Monday Brazilian holding
group Itausa (E.ITU) and bank Uniao de Bancos Brasileiros SA (UBB),
or Unibanco, to "neutral" from "outperform," saying it expected lower
profitability in the next two years.

In a note to investors, analyst Celso Boin said that Brazilian banks must
offset losses from the expected fall in interest rates by reducing
administrative costs, boosting fee revenues and seeking higher spread
assets.

The downgrade of Unibanco reflected concerns that the bank could face a
takeover or merger which would hurt minority investors, Boin said. In
Itausa's case, profits could be hit by the poor performance of its consumer
electronics subsidiary Itautec-Philco, Boin added, which is expected to
report a loss in 1998.

The investment house maintained Banco Bradesco SA (E.BBR) and
Banco do Brasil SA (E.BDB) at "neutral," and Banco do Estado de Sao
Paulo SA (E.BEP) and Banco Itau SA (E.BIT) at "outperform."
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