Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (BBI, DO, NE, EMC, ELX, HP, MEE, MHK, PVA, TEF, VOD, RIG)

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Published: April 15, 2008 5:45 am

These are the early-bird calls that we are looking at pre-market this Tuesday morning ahead of the earnings deluge that is about to start:

Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
Diamond Offshore (NYSE: DO) & Noble Corp. (NYSE: NE) cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.
EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) cut to Hold from Buy at Citigroup.
Emulex (NYSE: ELX) Cut to Sell from Buy at Citigroup.
Helmerich & Payne (NYSE: HP) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan.
Massey Energy (NYSE: MEE) Raised to Overweight from Neutral at JPMorgan.
Mohawk Industries (NYSE: MHK) Started as Buy at UBS.
Penn Virginia (NYSE: PVA) Started as Overweight at Lehman Brothers.
Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) started as Outperform at Bernstein.
Transocean (NYSE: RIG)) cut to Sell from Hold at Deutsche Bank.

Jon C. Ogg
April 15, 2008

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