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Top Pre-Market Anlyst Upgrades & Downgrades (IHG, MRVL, VAL, VSAT, MDRX, AAPL, COF, CHRW, NHY, TSON)

These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades and downgrades we have seen on Wall Street early this Tuesday morning: Intercontinental Hotels Group plc (IHG) Raised to Buy at Jefferies. Marvell Tech (MRVL) Raised to Outperform at Barclays. Valspar…

By Douglas A. McIntyre
Published February 24, 2009, 7:23am ET · 1 min read

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These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades and downgrades we have seen on Wall Street early this Tuesday morning:

  • Intercontinental Hotels Group plc (IHG) Raised to Buy at Jefferies.
  • Marvell Tech (MRVL) Raised to Outperform at Barclays.
  • Valspar (VAL) Raised to Neutral from Underweight at JPMorgan.
  • ViaSat (VSAT) Started as Buy at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey.
  • Allscripts-Misys Healthcare (MDRX) Cut to Sell at Deutsche Bank.
  • Apple (AAPL) Cut to Underperform from Outperform at Calyon.
  • Capital One (COF) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
  • CH Robinson Worldwide (CHRW) Cut to Underperform at Wachovia.
  • Norsk Hydro (NHY) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan.
  • Trans1 (TSON) Cut to Market Performn at Wachovia.

Jon C. Ogg
February 24, 2009

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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.

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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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