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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AET, AA, AIB, BBBY, BAC, BMRN, HUM, MSFT, MMM, VZ, WEN)

These are this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls early this morning:

Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) Cut to Sell at Collins Stewart.
Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) Cut to Hold at Citigroup.
Allied Irish Banks (NYSE: AIB) Raised to Market Perform at KBW.
Bed Bath & Beyond (NYSE: BBBY) Raised to Neutral at Piper Jaffray.
Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) Raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse.
BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (NASDAQ: BMRN) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan.
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) Raised to Equal-Weight at Barclays.
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) Reiterated Buy at Auriga.
3M Co. (NYSE: MMM) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) Reiterated Hold but cut estimates at Auriga.
Wendy’s/Arby’s (NYSE: WEN) Cut to Neutral at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey.

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