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Top Pre-Market Analyst Upgrades (HD, ILMN, MFE, NAV, OMX, VTA, VRNM, WAT)

By Douglas A. McIntyre
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These are some of the top upgrades or positive calls we are seeing from analysts this Friday morning:

  • Home Depot (HD) Started as Outperform at FBR.
  • Illumina (ILMN) Started as Overweight at Morgan Stanley.
  • McAfee (MFE) Started as Buy at American Technology & Research.
  • Navistar (NAV) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
  • OfficeMax (OMX) Started as Outperform at FBR.
  • Van Kampe Dynamic Credit Fund (VTA) Started as Perform at Oppenheimer.
  • Verenium (VRNM) Started as Buy at Lazard.
  • Waters Corp. (WAT) Started as Overweight at Morgan Stanley.

Jon C. Ogg
September 5, 2008

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