Top Pre-Market Analyst Upgrades (BBY, CB, DVA, DFT, FCX, FMS, MWE, MCHP, WFT)

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By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Published

Money_stack_picThese are some of the top per-market analyst upgrades and positive calls we are seeing from Wall Street this Thursday morning:

  • Best Buy (BBY) Raised to Overweight at Barclays.
  • Chubb (CB) Raised to Buy at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch.
  • DaVita (DVA) Started as Outperform at RBC.
  • Dupont Fabros Tech (DFT) Raised to Buy at UBS.
  • Freeport McMorRan (FCX) Raised to Hold at Canccord.
  • Fresenius Medical (FMS) Started as Outperform at RBC.
  • MarkWest Energy (MWE) Raised to Outperform at Morgan Keegan.
  • Microchip Tech (MCHP) Raised to Overweight at Barclays.
  • Weatherford (WFT) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.

Jon C. Ogg
January 29, 2009

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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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