Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ALXN, ACAS, ATHN, BCSI, CERN, SCHW, CL, FMCN, NVDA, PG, RVBD)

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By Jon C. Ogg Updated Published

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

Alexion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ALXN) Raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer.
American Capital, Ltd. (NASDAQ: ACAS) Cut to Sell at Stifel Nicolaus.
Athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN) Raised to Buy at Auriga.
Blue Coat Systems (NASDAQ: BCSI) Raised to Outperform at FBR.
Cerner Corp. (NASDAQ: CERN) Started as Market Perform at Avondale.
Charles Schwab Corp. (NASDAQ: SCHW) Raised to Outperform at FBR.
Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE: CL) Started as Hold at Stifel Nicolaus.
Focus Media Holding Ltd. (NASDAQ: FMCN) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan.
NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) Cut to Hold at Roth.
Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) Started as Buy at Stifel Nicolaus.
Riverbed Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: RVBD) Raised to Outperform at FBR.

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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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