Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (AU, APOL, CLF, DRI, ETR, EXC, EXPD, F, MELI, OSIP, STX, WDC)

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These are not all of the analyst calls out there affecting shares, but these are the top 10 analyst we are focusing on this Monday morning:

  • Anglogold (NYSE: AU) Raised to Buy at UBS.
  • Apollo Group (NASDAQ: APOL) cut to Sell at Banc of America.
  • Cleveland-Cliffs (NYSE: CLF) started as Buy at Deutsche Bank.
  • Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI) raised to Outperform at Bear Stearns.
  • Entergy (NYSE: ETR) & Excelon (NYSE: EXC) raised to Buy at Jefferies.
  • Expeditors International (NASDAQ: EXPD) Raised to Buy at UBS.
  • Ford Motors (NYSE: F) cut to Sell at Citigroup.
  • MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) raised to Outperform at RBC Capital.
  • OSI Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: OSIP) raised to Outperform at Wachovia.
  • Seagate Tech (NYSE: STX) raised to Overweight at JP Morgan; Western Digital (NYSE: WDC) downgraded to Underweight at JP Morgan.

Jon C. Ogg
March 3, 2008

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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