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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMZN, AMCS, AAPL, CZZ, GS, JEF, MS, UNH)

247wallst — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:27:04 +0000

These are this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in a thin week of coverage and Wall Street research calls:

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Reiterated Outperform but target raised to $172 at Piper Jaffray.
AMICAS, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMCS) Cut to Market Perform at William Blair.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Reiterated Outperform at Barclays; this follows raised targets from Broadpoint AmTech and Thomas Weisel yesterday.
Cosan Ltd. (NYSE: CZZ) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) Cut estimates $5.74 EPS vs. prior $6.57) at BofA/Merrill Lynch.
Jefferies Group Inc. (NYSE: JEF) Raised to Outperform at KBW.
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) Cut estimates (0.40 EPS vs. $0.47 prior) at BofA/Merrill Lynch.
UnitedHealth (NYSE: UNH) Cut to Hold at Standpoint.

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JON C. OGG

Posted in Analyst Calls Tagged: AAPL, AMCS, AMZN, CZZ, GS, JEF, MS, UNH

Top Day Trader Alerts (AAPL, AMCS, IBM, CGEN, UAUA, FNM, FRE, VICL)

247wallst — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:47:04 +0000

We have compiled Monday’s top pre-market day trader and active trader alert stocks. There is a link to each story for more detail and analysis at VSInvestor.com:

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is hitting new highs, again.

AMICAS, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMCS) is up big on a going-private deal.

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) is up by under 1% after being the Barron’s cover story stock this weekend.

Compugen Ltd. (NASDAQ: CGEN) is up at new fresh recent highs on positive drug news.

UAL Corporation (NASDAQ: UAUA) is trading lower by about 3% on the failed Northwest flight on Christmas Day.

Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) are both surging over 20% on US Treasury increased backing.

Vical Incorporated (NASDAQ: VICL) is up over 20% on positive drug safety news.

JON C. OGG

Posted in Pre-Market Activity, Trading Alert Tagged: AAPL, AMCS, CGEN, FNM, FRE, IBM, UAUA, VICL