AAPL reitr Outperform at Piper Jaffray; reitr Buy at UBS.
ACI & BTU started as Overweight at HSBC.
ASH cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
AXP cut to Hold at AGEdwards.
CFR started as Overweight at Lehman.
CLRK started as Buy at Deutsche Bank.
CNC cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs.
COGN cut to Neutral at Cowen.
CTB raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.
CVX cut to Neutral at B of A.
DV cut to Underweight at Morgan Stanley.
EXLS started as Underweight at Lehman.
GNTX cut to reduce at UBS.
HSY cut to Neutral at UBS.
IDTI started as Buy at UBS.
NETL cut to Neutral at UBS.
NILE raised to Outperform at RBC.
NSTK cut to Outperform at FBR.
PSEC started as Buy at Oppenheimer.
RDS raised to Buy at ABNAMRO(overseas).
SBUX raised to Buy at UBS.
SIRI cut to Underperform at Bear Stearns.
SLB cut to Mkt Perform at Wachovia.
THC cut to Neutral at Prudential.
ULTR started as Buy at UBS.
VNO raised to Outperform at Wachovia.
VOD raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.
ZUMZ started as Outperform at CIBC.
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McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.
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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.
TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.
McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.