Top Pre-Market Analyst Downgrades (ANF, AFFY, T, CPHD, DAI, RF, STJ, TASR, NCTY, TIF, WTSLA)

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By Douglas A. McIntyre Published

These are some of the top analyst Downgrades and negative calls we are seeing early this Friday morning:

  • Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) Cut to Neutral at Banc of America.
  • Affymax (AFFY) Cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.
  • AT&T (T) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
  • Cepheid (CPHD) Cut to Underperform at Jefferies.
  • Daimler (DAI) Cut to Neutral at HSBC.
  • Regions Financial (RF) Cut to Neutral at Banc of America.
  • St. Jude Medical (STJ) Started as Neutral at Piper Jaffray.
  • TASER (TASR) Cut to Neutral at Merriman Curhan Ford.
  • The9 Ltd. (NCTY) Cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs.
  • Tiffany (TIF) Cut to Sell at Banc of America.
  • Wet Seal (WTSLA) Cut to Neutral at Piper Jaffray.

Jon C. Ogg
July 25, 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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