Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (AKAM, AEO, ARBA, BBI, CPWR, DVAX, FNSR, NCC, TOO, TXN)

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These aren’t the only analyst calls this Monday morning, but these are the ones we are focusing on early this morning:

  • Akamai Tech (NASDAQ: AKAM) Cut to Hold from Buy at Citigroup.
  • American Eagle (NYSE: AEO) cut to Underperform at Friedman Billings.
  • Ariba (NASDAQ: ARBA) raised to Outperform at RBC Capital.
  • Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) Added To Citigroup’s Top Picks list.
  • Compuware (NASDAQ: CPWR) Raised to Buy from Hold at Banc Of America.
  • Dynavax Technologies (NASDAQ: DVAX) cut to Peer Perform at Bear Stearns.
  • Finisar (NASDAQ: FNSR) Raised to Overweight at Thomas Weisel.
  • National City (NYSE: NCC) Raised to Buy from Hold at Citigroup.
  • Teekay Offshore (NYSE: TOO) raised to Outperform at Wachovia.
  • Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) Raised to Buy from Hold at Citigroup.

Jon C. Ogg
May 19, 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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