Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (AYR, ARST, GLS, HCBK, JRN, MAKO, PFCB, TLM, WAT, WW)

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These are the top analyst upgrades and downgrades that 247WallSt.com is focusing on in pre-market trading this Wednesday morning:

  • Aircastle (NYSE: AYR) Downgraded to Neutral from Overweight at JPMorgan.
  • ArcSight (NASDAQ: ARST) started as Outperform at Wachovia; started as Equal Weight at Lehman Brothers.
  • Genesis Lease (NYSE: GLS) Downgraded to Neutral from overweight at JP Morgan.
  • Hudson City Banc (NASDAQ: HCBK) Downgraded to Market Perform from Outperform at FBR.
  • Journal Commun (NYSE: JRN) started as Outperform at Bear Stearns.
  • MAKO Surgical (NASDAQ: MAKO) Started as Market Perform at Wachovia; Started as Overweight at JPMorgan.
  • P.F. Chang’s (NASDAQ: PFCB) Downgraded to Underperform From Market Perform at FBR.
  • Talisman Energy (NYSE:TLM) raised to Buy from Hold at Citigroup.
  • Waters (NYSE: WAT) Raised To Overweight From Neutral at JPMorgan.
  • Watson Wyatt (NYSE: WW) raised to Buy from Hold at UBS.

Jon C. Ogg
March 26, 20008

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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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