Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (BIDU, BHP, CHL, CHA, GMCR, INFY, RAX, SRE, SYMC, UPS, VSAT)

January 13, 2010 by Douglas A. McIntyre

These are this Wednesday morning’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in major Wall Street research calls:

Baidu, inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank; Raised to Buy at UBS.
BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) Raised to Buy at Canaccord Adams.
China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) Started as Outperform at Bernstein.
China Telecom (NYSE: CHA) Started as Market Perform at Bernstein.
Green Mountain Coffee (NASDAQ: GMCR) Started as Buy at Roth Capital.
Infosys Technologies (NASDAQ: INFY) Raised to Overweight at HSBC.
Rackspace Hosting, Inc. (NYSE: RAX) Started as Outperform at Wells Fargo.
Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE) Cut to Market Perform at Wells Fargo.
Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) Raised to Outperform at Wells Fargo.
United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) Raised to Outperform at RBC Capital and its price target was raised to $72 at Goldman Sachs.
ViaSat (NYSE: VSAT) Cut to Perform at Oppenheimer.

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JON C. OGG

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