Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ADCT, ALL, AMSC, BSX, CSIQ, ENOC, ITRI, JASO, KBH, LIFE, MDT, PLD, RYL, SHW, TSL, VVUS, YGE)

These are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street firms: ADC Telecommunications Inc. (NASDAQ: ADCT) Cut to Hold at Jefferies. Allstate Corp. (NYSE: ALL) Started as Perform at Oppenheimer. American Superconductor…

Published July 14, 2010, 8:06am ET · 1 min read

These are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street firms:

ADC Telecommunications Inc. (NASDAQ: ADCT) Cut to Hold at Jefferies.
Allstate Corp. (NYSE: ALL) Started as Perform at Oppenheimer.
American Superconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: AMSC) Started as Buy at Jefferies
Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE: BSX) Started as Perform at Oppenheimer.
Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ) Started as Hold at Jefferies.
EnerNOC, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENOC) Started as Buy at Jefferies.
Itron Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) Started as Buy at Jefferies.
JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: JASO) Started as Buy at Jefferies.
KB Home (NYSE: KBH) Raised to Buy at Stifel Nicolaus; Goldman Sachs maintains Neutral at cut target to $13.
Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) Started as Outperform at Oppenheimer.
Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) Started as Outperform at Oppenheimer.
ProLogis (NYSE: PLD) Started as Outperform at FBR.
Ryland Group Inc. (NYSE: RYL) Raised to Buy at Stifel Nicolaus; Goldman Sachs at Neutral but cut target to $18.
Sherwin-Williams Co. (NYSE: SHW) Cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs.
Trina Solar Ltd. (NYSE: TSL) STarted as Buy at Jefferies.
VIVUS, Inc. (NASDAQQ: VVUS) Raised to Outperform at Leerink Swann.
Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. Ltd. (NYSE: YGE) Started as Buy at Jefferies.

JON C. OGG

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Jon C. Ogg

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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