Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (DD, ELN, LOGI, MSFT, OMPI, PDLI, RRGB, RMG, WHR, XFML )

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These are not all of the analyst calls moving stocks this morning, but these are the top ten individual analyst calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on this morning:

  • DuPont (NYSE: DD) started as Outperform at Credit Suisse.
  • Elan (NYSE: ELN) started as Outperform at Credit Suisse.
  • Logitec (NASDAQ: LOGI) started as Buy at Citigroup.
  • Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) started as Buy at Jefferies.
  • Obagi Medical (NASDAQ: OMPI) raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer.
  • PDL BioPharma (NASDAQ: PDLI) cut to Equal-Weight at Lehman Brothers.
  • Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (NASDAQ: RRGB) raised to Overweight at JP Morgan.
  • RiskMetrics Group (NYSE: RMG) started as Outperform at Credit Suisse; started as Neutral at Banc of America.
  • Whirlpool (NYSE: WHR) downgraded to Underweight at JPMorgan.
  • Xinhua Financial Media (NASDAQ: XFML) downgraded to Neutral at JP Morgan.

Jon C. Ogg
March 5, 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.

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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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