Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ALU, ALL, AMZN, AU, CA, CHKP, COST, GE, HON, KEY, MYGN, PCLN, SIX, SFD, MMM, TYC, UTX)

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By Jon C. Ogg Updated Published
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These are some of this Wednesday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls.

Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Raised to Buy at Jefferies.
Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) Started as Outperform at RBC.
Amazon.com Inc. (NASAQ: AMZN) Cut to Hold at Benchmark.
AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU) Raised to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
CA Inc. (NYSE: CA) Started as Outperform at Wells Fargo.
Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ: CHKP) Started as Outperform at Wells Fargo.
Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST) Cut to Neutral at UBS.
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) Started as Buy at Nomura.
Honeywell International (NYSE: HON) Started as Buy at Nomura.
KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) Cut to Perform at Oppenheimer.
Myriad Genetics inc. (NASDAQ: MYGN) Raised to Outperform at RBC.
Priceline.com Incorporated (NASDAQ: PCLN) Raised to Outperform at Morgan Keegan.
Six Flags Entertainment (NYSE: SIX) Started as Outperform at Oppenheimer.
Smithfield Foods Inc. (NYSE: SFD) Raised to Outperform at BMO.
3M Co. (NYSE: MMM) Started as Reduce at Nomura.
Tyco International (NYSE: TYC) Started as Reduce at Nomura.
United Technologies (NYSE: UTX) Started as Buy at Nomura.

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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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