Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (ABH, ETN, HES, LECO, LPX, MVSN, MUR, NVO, SWS, WBS)

These are not all of the analyst calls affecting shares this morning, but these are ten that we are focusing on this Monday morning:

• AbitibiBowater (NYSE: ABH) started as Outperform at RBC Capital Markets.
• Eaton Corp. (NYSE: ETN) raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
• Hess (NYSE: HES) Added to Goldman Sachs Conviction Buy List.
• Lincoln Electric (NASDAQ: LECO) started as Buy at Piper Jaffray.
• Louisiana-Pacific (NYSE: LPX) started as Underperform at RBC Capital Markets.
• Macrovision (NASDAQ: MVSN) raised to Buy at Piper Jaffray.
• Murphy Oil (NYSE: MUR) cut to Underweight at JP Morgan.
• Novo-Nordisk AS (NYSE: NVO) raised to Neutral at HSBC Securities.
• SWS Group (NYSE: SWS) started as Market Perform at KBW.
• Webster Financial (NYSE: WBS) raised to Outperform at KBW.

Jon C. Ogg
June 9, 2008