Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ACTI, BCE, KSU, MYL, TEVA, AXP, AAPL, ROCK, SNV, TKC)

December 17, 2008 by Douglas A. McIntyre

Money_stack_picIt is getting rather thin in analyst coverage, but these are the top ten analyst upgrades and downgrades we have seen this Wednesday morning:

  • ActivIdentity (NASDAQ: ACTI) Started as Buy at Stanford Group.
  • BCE (NYSE:BCE) Raised to Buy at UBS.
  • Kansas City Southern (NYSE:KSU) Raised to Buy at UBS.
  • Mylan (NYSE:MYL) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan.
  • Teva (NASDAQ: TEVA) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan.
  • American Express (NYSE:AXP) Started as Reduce at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey.
  • Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Cut to Perform at Oppenheimer.
  • Gibralter (NASDAQ: ROCK) Cut to Sell at Piper Jaffray.
  • Synovus Financial (NYSE:SNV) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
  • Turkcell (NYSE:TKC) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.

Jon C. Ogg
December 17, 2008

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