Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AIB, AMZN, ADM, CAT, COP, DE, EBAY, GOOG, HBC, JASO, NFLX, NSC, UNP, XLNX)

October 1, 2010 by Jon C. Ogg

These are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes:

Allied Irish Banks plc (NYSE: AIB) Cut to Sell at Societe Generale.
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Started as Market Perform at Raymond James.
Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) Cut to Market Perform at BMO.
Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) Cut to Neutral at BofA/Merrill Lynch.
ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) Cut to Underweight at Morgan Stanley.
Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) Started as Market Perform at Raymond James.
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) Started as Outperform at Raymond James.
HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE: HBC) Raised to Conviction Buy List at Goldman Sachs.
JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: JASO) Cut to Hold on valuation at Auriga.
Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) Cut to Negative at Susquehanna.
Norfolk Southern Corp. (NYSE: NSC) Cut to Market Perform at Wells Fargo.
Union Pacific Corp. (NYSE: UNP) Cut to Market Perform at Wells Fargo.
Xilinx Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) Cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs.

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