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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ARIA, RATE, IRM, ISLN, MOT, OMX, RTP, SYNA, VSEA, DIS)

These are ten of the top pre-market analyst calls with upgrads and downgrades that we have seen from Wall Street early this Friday morning:

Ariad pharmaceuticals (ARIA) Cut to Sell at Merriman Curhan Ford.
Bankrate (RATE) Cut to Hold at Jefferies.
Iron Mountain (IRM) Cut to Neutral at Baird.
Isilon Systems (ISLN) Raised to Buy at ThinkEquity; Raised to Buy at Needham.
Motorola (MOT) Raised to Outperform at Morgan Keegan.
OfficeMax (OMX) Raised to Buy at Citigroup.
Rio Tinto (RTP) Cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse.
Synaptics (SYNA) Cut to Hold at Jefferies.
Varian Semiconductor (VSEA) Raised to Buy at UBS.
Walt Disney (DIS) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan.

Jon C. Ogg
July 31, 2009

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