Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (AKAM, MO, AZN, GSK, HES, LVLT, PEP, PIR, UBS, VMW)

These aren’t the only impact analyst calls this morning, but these are the ones we are focusing the Tuesday in pre-market trading hours:

• Akamai Tech (NASDAQ: AKAM) Raised to Buy from Neutral at Piper Jaffray.
• Altria (NYSE: MO) Cut to Equalweight from Overweight at Morgan Stanley.
• AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) raised to Neutral at JPMorgan.
• GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) Started as Buy at ING.
• Hess (NYSE: HES) Raised To Outperform From Market Perform at FBR.
• Level 3 Communications (NASDAQ: LVLT) Started As Underperform at Wachovia.
• PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) Cut To Neutral From Buy at Goldman Sachs.
• Pier 1 Imports (NYSE: PIR) Raised To Buy From Hold at Deutsche Bank.
• UBS (NYSE: UBS) Raised To Buy at Deutsche Bank.
• VMware (NYSE: VMW) Raised To Outperform From Market Perform at Wachovia.

Jon C. Ogg
April 1, 2008

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