Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (BMC, CNK, CTXS, CME, CTCM, DHT, RDEN, HOV, TPX, WLL)

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These aren’t going to be the only impact analyst calls this Tuesday morning, but these are ten of the calls we are focusing on very early this morning:

  • BMC Software (NYSE: BMC) Started as Neutral at UBS.
  • Cinemark (NYSE: CNK) cut to equal-weight at Morgan Stanley.
  • Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS) Cut to Market Perform from Outperform at FBR.
  • CME Group (NYSE: CME) Raised to Buy from Hold at Citigroup.
  • CTC Media (NASDAQ: CTCM) started as Overweight at Lehman Brothers.
  • Double Hull Tankers (NYSE: DHT) raised to Neutral at JPMorgan.
  • Elizabeth Arden (NASDAQ: RDEN) raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer.
  • Hovnanian Enterprises (NYSE: HOV) Raised to Neutral from Sell at UBS.
  • Tempur-Pedic (NYSE: TPX) cut to Perform at Oppenheimer.
  • Whiting Petroleum (NYSE: WLL) started as Outperform at Wachovia.

Jon C. Ogg
June 17, 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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