Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (ALU, CHS, LONG, IFX, JNPR, MAR, MFA, NSC, SNDA, VVUS)

These are ten of the analyst calls we are focusing on this Thursday morning:

• Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Raised to Neutral from Sell at Goldman Sachs.
• Chico’s FAS (NYSE: CHS) cut to Sell at Citigroup.
• eLong (NASDAQ: LONG) Cut to Sell from Hold at Citigroup.
• Infineon (NYSE: IFX) Cut to Reduce at Oppenheimer.
• Juniper Networks (NASDAQ: JNPR) cut to Neutral at UBS; started as Hold at Lazard.
• Marriott International (NYSE: MAR) Cut to Equalweight at Morgan Stanley.
• MFA Mortgage (NYSE: MFA) raised to Outperform at Keefe Bruyette Woods.
• Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC) Raised To Buy from Neutral at Merrill Lynch.
• Shanda Interactive (NASDAQ: SNDA) Cut to Hold from Buy at Citigroup.
• Vivus (NASDAQ: VVUS) cut to Market Perform at Wachovia.

Jon C. Ogg
May 29, 2008

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