21.   The e-mails also showed analysts, including Henry Blodget, who followed Internet stocks for Merrill, privately deriding companies whose shares they were recommending to the public.

22.   With stock prices dropping so much, he recommends shares of Foster Wheeler and Chicago Bridge and Iron.

23.   That controversy started after Fox publicly criticized him for recommending the shares of TheStreet.com, in which he holds a large stake, to viewers.

24.   He recommended shares which have not attracted much attention despite their solid performance instead of shiny performers such as semiconductors and banks.

25.   Supermarket shares were recommended by several brokers and their shares rose.