Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AAPL, BYI, BHP, DWA, FRO, IGT, CSCO, JPM, PCLN, RS)

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By Jon C. Ogg Updated Published

These are ten of this Wednesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes:

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Raised estimates and Target to $348.00 at Piper Jaffray.
Bally Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BYI) Cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs.
BHP Billiton Ltd. (NYSE: BHP) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan (Cazenove).
DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. (NASDAQ: DWA) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
Frontline Ltd. (NYSE: FRO) Removed from Conviction Buy List at Goldman Sachs.
International Game Technologies (NYSE: IGT) Cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs.
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) Started as Overweight with $32 target at Atlantic Securities.
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) Started as Outperform at FBR Capital.
Priceline.com Incorporated (NASDAQ: PCLN) Raised to Buy with $240 target at Goldman Sachs.
Reliance Steel & Aluminum (NYSE: RS) Raised to Buy at UBS.

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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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