Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ABT, ARO, BIIB, CELG, CADC, FACT, HBC, LMNX, EDU, SGI)

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

Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) Cut to Sell at Citigroup.
Aeropostale (NYSE: ARO) Raised to Neutral at Piper Jaffray.
Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) Started as Neutral at Piper Jaffray.
Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG) Started as Overweight at Piper Jaffray.
China Advanced Construction Materials (NASDAQ: CADC) Started as Buy at Roth Capital.
Facet Biotech (NASDAQ: FACT) Cut to Market Perform at BMO Capital.
HSBC (NYSE: HBC) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
Luminex (NASDAQ: LMNX) Started as Buy at Jefferies.
New Oriental Education (NYSE: EDU) Started as Buy at Deutsche Bank.
Pacific Sunwear of California (NASDAQ: PSUN) Cut to Market Perform at FBR.
Silicon Graphics International (NYSE: SGI) Started as Market Perform at Morgan Keegan.

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JON C. OGG

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Jon Ogg has been a financial news analyst since 1997. Mr. Ogg set up one of the first audio squawk box services for traders called TTN, which he sold in 2003. He has previously worked as a licensed broker to some of the top U.S. and E.U. financial institutions, managed capital, and has raised private capital at the seed and venture stage. He has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as New York and Chicago, and he now lives in Houston, Texas. Jon received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance at University of Houston in 1992. www.247wallst.com.

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