Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMAP, AVGO, BCSI, BPO, DEO, GPS, MOSY, MYGN, NRGY, SBUX, XLNX)

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

AutoNavi Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: AMAP) Started as Outperform at Pacific Crest.
Avago Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: AVGO) Maintained Buy and Raised Target to $30 at Gleacher.
Blue Coat Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: BCSI) Started at Market Perform at William Blair.
Brookfield Properties Corporation (NYSE: BPO) Raised to Buy at Stifel Nicolaus.
Diageo plc (NYSE: DEO) Raised to Neutral at Barclays.
Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) Cut to Neutral at Wedbush.
Monolithic Power Systems (NASDAQ: MOSY) Cut to Hold at Stifel Nicolaus.
Myriad Genetics Inc. (NASDAQ: MYGN) Cut to Neutral at Global Hunter.
Inergy, L.P. (NYSE: NRGY) Raised To Buy From Hold By Wunderlich; Cut to Hold at Citigroup.
Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) raised debt rating to BBB+ at S&P (late Tuesday call).
Xilinx Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) Raised to Buy at S&P Equity Research (late Tuesday call).

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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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