Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (CNI, CELG, FSLR, JCP, MGM, POT, QCOM, SYNA, TXN, WSM)

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

Canadian National Railway Company (NYSE: CNI) Cut to Sector Peform at CIBC.
Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG) Cut to Hold at Jefferies.
First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) maintained sell but raised estimates on orders at Soleil.
J.C. Penney Company (NYSE: JCP) Raised to Conviction Buy List and target raised to $37 at Goldman Sachs.
MGM Mirage (NYSE: MGM) Cut to Sell at Soleil.
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (NYSE: POT) Target to $150 (Canadian) at Scotia.
QUALCOMM Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) Started as Underperform at BNP Paribas.
Synaptics Inc. (NASDAQ: SYNA) Cut to Sell at Lazard.
Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN) Started as Outperform at BNP Paribas.
Williams-Sonoma Inc. (NYSE: WSM) Raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer.

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