Select Analyst Calls (DEC 15, 2006)

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ARRY started as Buy at Oppenheimer.
ATEC raised to Buy at First Albany.
AVY cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
BAS started as Buy at Jefferies.
BEAS raised to Outperform at Piper Jaffray.
BG cut to Underweight at HSBC.
CHKP started as Hold at Citigroup.
CIEN raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.
COH started as Buy at Oppenheimer.
DIET started as Sell at First Albany.
ECL cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
ECA cut to Sell at Citigroup.
FWRD cut to Neutral at Baird.
IRF cut to Neutral at UBS.
LEND raised to Outperform at Bear Stearns.
LOW raised to Outperform at Bear Stearns.
MFE started as Neutral at Citigroup.
MON raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.
MRX started as Hold at Citigroup.
MYL started as Equal Weight at Morgan Stanley.
NFLX started as Neutral at First Albany.
NRP raised to Buy at Citigroup.
ORCL cut to Neutral at First Albany.
ORH started as Outperform at Wachovia.
PDC cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.
PEET started as Neutral at Baird.
PFWD started as Buy at Jefferies.
PRAI cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs, cut to Neutral at Baird..
PTEN cut to Sell at Deutsche Bank.
SNV started as Buy at Stifel Nicolaus.
STI cut to Underperform at FBR.
SWKS reitr Buy at Stifel Nicolaus (maybe yesterday call).
SWX started as Overweight at JPMorgan.
TIF started as Neutral at Oppenheimer.
TIN raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.
WY raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.

Energy Goldman Sachs raised estimates on CHK, FTO, VLO, PEIX, TSO, UGP, XTO.

Jon C. Ogg
December 15, 2006

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

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.

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