• Privately-held Reynolds Group announced plans to acquire hefty-bag maker, Pactiv (NYSE:PTV), for $6 billion, or $33.25 per share
• Deere (NYSE:DE) reported better-than-expected sales and earnings for fiscal third quarter. Earnings of $1.44 beat estimates of $1.24 on revenues of $6.84 billion, which beat estimates of $6.5 billion. The firm said it was experiencing slow sales in Europe
• Target (NYSE:TGT) reported inline second quarter earnings of 92 cents a share, on revenues of $15.53 billion, slightly missing consensus estimates of $15.6 billion
• BJ Wholesale (NYSE:BJ) posted worse than anticipated second quarter earnings of 67 cents a share, off estimates of 73 cents, as revenues of $2.79 billion cam in line with expectations. Guidance for 2011 was lowered to $2.40-$2.50 from $2.58-$2.68
• Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) downgraded Illinois Tool Works (NYSE:ITW) to “neutral” from “buy,” cutting the price target from $53 to $50
• Needham maintained a “buy” rating on Marvell (NASDAQ:MRVL), but lowered the price target from $25 to $23. Morgan Keegan downgraded Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) to “underperform” from “outperform”
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