Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (AIG, BARE, CWST, DNA, GILD, MHS, SLAB, TKLC, UBS, WCA)

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These are ten of the analyst calls we are seeing early this Thursday morning in early bird pre-market trading hours:

  • American International Group (NYSE: AIG) raised to Buy at Citigroup.
  • Bare Escentuals (NASDAQ: BARE) Raised to Buy from Hold at Citigroup.
  • Casella Waste (NASDAQ: CWST) raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
  • Genentech (NYSE: DNA) Started as Buy at Deutsche Bank.
  • Gilead (NASDAQ: GILD) Started as Buy at Deutsche Bank.
  • Medco Health Solutions (NYSE: MHS) Cut to Neutral from Buy at UBS.
  • Silicon Laboratories (NASDAQ: SLAB) Raised to Outperform from Market Perform at FBR.
  • Tekelec (NASDAQ: TKLC) Cut to Equal-weight from Overweight at Lehman Brothers.
  • UBS AG (NYSE: UBS) cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse.
  • WCA Waste (NYSE: WCA) Cut To Underweight From Neutral By JP Morgan.

Jon C. Ogg
June 19, 2008

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

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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