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UPGRADES Evercore Partners upgrades Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) from Underweight to Equal Weight, its price target raised from $8 to $11.

Susquehanna boosts NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) from Neutral to Positive, raising its price target from $13 to $18. Canaccord Genuity lifts St.

Jude Medical (NYSE: STJ) from Hold to Buy, price target raised from $42 to $50.

Delta Air Lines Inc. says it expects an $800 million profit this year, and it will be solidly profitable in 2012.

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Delta Air Lines says half-full planes and the high cost of fuel are leading it to reduce service to rural America.

Delta Air Lines Inc. says it will stop sending U.S. calls to a call center in South Africa, as it continues to shift that work back to the U.S.

Delta Air Lines Inc. and US Airways Group Inc. say they have a new deal to swap takeoff and landing rights in Washington and New York.

American Airlines is suspending two of its six daily flights to Japan next week due to a slump in traffic since the big earthquake and tsunami.

American said Wednesday it will suspend the flights on April 6 and resume them on April 26.

One goes from New York to Tokyo's Haneda Airport, and the other flies between Dallas and Tokyo's Narita Airport.

The move by AMR Corp.'s American Airlines follows Delta Air Lines Inc.'s decision last week to suspend service to Haneda, although Delta continues flying to Narita.

Delta Air Lines Inc. will allow people traveling to, from or through seven states to change their flight plans this weekend for free because of severe weather.

Delta Air Lines reported its biggest quarterly profit in a decade, but investors worry that the airline industry will repeat mistakes that have hurt past recoveries.

In merging with United, Continental gains a bigger flight network that would leave its rivals in New York — Delta Air Lines and American Airlines — struggling to catch up.