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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (AAPL, GOOG, CME, FFIV, HOG, ICE, NDAQ, NTRI, SGMS, URBN)

These are the top ten stocks seeing analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street early this Friday morning:

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was given a cautious call from Oppenheimer, noting that it could report in-line or even slightly disappointing revenues of $9 to $9.2 billion.   Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG): Stifel Nicolaus raised target to $650; UBS raised target to $635; JPMorgan raised target to $608; Goldman Sachs raised target to $635; BofA raised target to $640; Citi raised target to $640.

CME Group (NYSE: CME) Raised to Outperform at KBW.
F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) Cut to Perform at Oppenheimer.
Harley-Davidson (NYSE: HOG) Raised to Outperform at RBC.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) Raised to Outperform at KBW.
NASDAQ (NASDAQ: NDAQ) Cut to Market Perform at KBW.
NutriSystem (NASDAQ: NTRI) Raised to Buy at Janney Montgomery
Scientific Games (NASDAQ: SGMS) Cut to Neutral at JP Morgan.
Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ: URBN) Started as Buy at BofA/Merrill Lynch.

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JON C. OGG
OCTOBER 16, 2009

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