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Also upgraded to a "5" rating was Nordstrom Inc (NYSE: JWN).

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The ValuEngine Rating is an overall assessment of a stock's attractiveness. It combines the following five factors: ValuEngine's proprietary valuation, risk-return tradeoff, momentum, market capitalization and ValuEngine's proprietary forecasted one-month return.

Approximately 80 to 85 companies achieve this highest ValuEngine rating out of VE's total coverage of over 5,000 publicly traded companies. These ratings are computed daily and are often discussed on financial broadcasts on General Electric (NYSE: GE) unit CNBC, Fox's (NYSE: FOX) Fox News Channel, Bloomberg TV, and AOL Time Warner (NYSE: AOL) unit CNNfn by leading market forecasters such as Richard Suttmeier.

ValuEngine is a subscription-based business intelligence, market and equity analysis firm that provides exclusive, customized research and analysis solutions directly to companies, investors, investment banks and broker-dealers. A special arrangement between the Investrend Research Syndicate and ValuEngine provides for preferred introductions and complimentary value-added services for those enrolling into ValuEngine programs. For more information write to valuengine@investrend.com. To receive ValuEngine research and commentary news alerts, write to firstalert@investrend.com with "ValuEngine" in the subject line.

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TCF is a Wayzata, Minnesota-based national financial holding company with $17.5 billion in total assets. TCF has 444 banking offices in Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, Colorado, Wisconsin, Indiana, Arizona and South Dakota, providing retail and commercial banking services. TCF also conducts commercial leasing and equipment finance business in all 50 states and commercial inventory finance business in the U.S. and Canada. For more information about TCF, please visit www.tcfbank.com.

SOURCE: TCF Financial Corporation

TCF Financial Corporation, Wayzata 
Jason Korstange, 952-745-2755 
www.tcfbank.com