Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ABB, MDRX, BSX, DROOY, GFI, HMY, WFR, BTU, POT, PHM, PUK, STM, WEN)

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations we have seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning:

ABB Ltd. (NYSE: ABB) Raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.
Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX) Raised to Overweight at Thomas Weisel.
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) Maintained Sell at Goldman Sachs, but removed from Conviction Sell List.
DRDGold (NASDAQ: DROOY) Started as Overweight at Morgan Stanley.
Gold Fields Ltd. (NYSE: GFI) Started as Equal-weight at Morgan Stanley.
Harmony Gold Mining Co. (NYSE: HMY) Started as Overweight at Morgan Stanley.
MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. (NYSE: WFR) Cut to Buy from Strong Buy at S&P (late yesterday).
Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) Raised to Outperform at BMO Capital.
Potash Corp of Saskatchewan (NYSE: POT) Raised to Buy at UBS.
Pulte Homes (NYSE: PHM) Raised to Hold at Stifel Nicolaus.
Prudential plc (NYSE: PUK) Started as Buy at UBS.
STMicroelectronics NV (NYSE: STM) Started as Buy at Jefferies.
Wendy’s/Arby’s (NYSE: WEN) Raised to Buy at SunTrust.

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