Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (AAPL, MT, BLK, BRCM, CCL, RCL, DELL, LLTC, NSM, PSUN, JAVA)

These are ten of the analyst calls we are keying in on this Friday morning:

• Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) added to CONVICTION BUY LIST at Goldman Sachs; stock up 2% pre-market.
• ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.
• BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) Raised to Outperform from Market Perform at Wachovia.
• Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) started as Neutral at Robert W. Baird.
• Carnival (NYSE: CCL) and Royal Caribbean (NYSE: RCL) downgraded at Morgan Stanley.
• Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) Raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley; stock up 2% pre-market.
• Linear Tech (NASDAQ: LLTC) cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.
• National Semi (NYSE: NSM) raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.
• Pacific Sunwear (NASDAQ: PSUN) cut to Neutral at Piper Jaffray.
• Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) Cut to Underweight at Morgan Stanley; stock indicated down 1% pre-market.

Jon C. Ogg
May 23, 2008

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