Zacks.com Announces that Vivian Lewis Highlights the Following Stocks: Spirent, Suez, Schlumberger, and Teva.Business Editors CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 2004 Contrary to what many are saying, Vivian Lewis expects a slow-down in growth for 2004. So make sure not to get caught off-guard and let this expert point you toward beneficial global investments. Read about Spirent (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SPM SPM - Sequential Parlog Machine ), Suez (NYSE:SZE SZE Shared Zone Entry ), Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE:SLB SLB Solomon Islands (ISO Country code) SLB Schlumberger Ltd. (oil field services firm) SLB Server Load Balancing SLB Sport Lisboa e Benfica (soccer) ), and Teva (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :TEVA). Click here for the full story exclusively on Zacks.com: http://at.zacks.com/?id=84 Here are the highlights from the Featured Expert column: Taking Stock... Spirent (NYSE:SPM) launched a new Block Storage Tester that expands its multi-protocol storage test abilities into a single, integrated tool measuring Internet SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. (iSCSI) and fibre channel performance of network switches and storage devices. iSCSI is used by large companies and switch manufacturers to upgrade existing IP-based networks. Suez (NYSE:SZE) is a likely winner of the new $6.1 billion program to clean up Brazil's water supplies; it bought Aguas de Amazonas in 2000 and "streamlined administration, began fixing pipes, and introduced new technology to process water", according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. The Financial Times. Only to discover than 2/3 of its customers had disabled their water meters and a further 20% would not pay their bills. Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE:SLB), the world's largest oilfield services firm, will buy Russian PetroAlliance Services Inc., in the same business. SLB will initially acquire 26%, in Q1 2004. It will acquire an additional 25% in Q2 2005, and the remainder one year later. The acquisition will be priced by a performance-based formula, and payable 1/3 in cash and the rest in stock. USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. Piper Jaffrey cut its target for Teva (NASDAQ:TEVA) to $60 and its rating to neutral, arguing that the Israel generics firm's drug pipeline was weak. The stock, then over $60, fell back. A few days later, UBS UBS Union Bank of Switzerland UBS United Bible Societies UBS United Blood Services UBS United Buying Service UBS Used Bookstore UBS University Business Services UBS Universal Building Society (UK) UBS Ulaanbaatar Broadcasting System called Teva a buy. Teva is making generic birth control pills birth control pill n. See oral contraceptive. birth control pill Oral contraceptive, see there under a new deal with Andrx. It filed a $2 billion shelf registration with the SEC to sell securities for money it does not need, which pushed down the share price. 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