Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (A, BBBY, BBY, DTV, ECL, EP, IBM, NTAP, LRCX, MOT, CRM)

These are not all of the calls affecting stocks, but these are the top analyst calls that a673b.bigscoots-temp.com is looking at this Thursday morning:

• Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
• Borg Warner (NYSE: BWA) cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
• Boyd Gaming (NYSE: BYD) cut to Underweight at KeyBanc.
• CDC Corp. (NASDAAQ: CHINA) started as Buy at Cantor Fitzgerald.
• Chimera (NYSE: CIM) started as Neutral at JPMorgan.
• Lear (NYSE: LEA) cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
• RF Micro Devices (NASDAQ: RFMD) downgraded to Hold at Jefferies.
• Sotheby’s (NYSE: BID) raised to Outperform at JMP Securities.
• Western Digital (NYSE: WDC) and Seagate (NYSE: STX) were both cut to Hold from Buy at Citigroup.
• Varian (NASDAQ: VARI) raised to Buy at UBS.

Jon C. Ogg
February 28, 2008