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BUZZ-United Utilites: bottom of FTSE 100 on Credit Suisse double downgrade

** United Utilities (LSE: UU.L - news) down 2 pct, bottom of FTSE 100 in heavy volume

** Credit Suisse (IOB: 0QP5.IL - news) downgrades to Underperform from Outperform, cuts TP to 850p from 1000p

** CS says price control review (2019) could again be particularly challenging for UU

** OFWAT will focus increasingly on operational outperformance and less on financing outperformance, per CS

** Broker flags UU has been amongst the strongest in the sector at delivering financing outperformance and amongst the weakest on OFWAT's operational focus metrics (specifically, TOTEX)

** Most actively traded UK bluechip stock (RM (LSE: RM.L - news) :sanjeeban.sarkar.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)