Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (ALU, ATHR, HUN, LVLT, MAA, RSOL, TER, TEVA, TWTI, WFMI)

These are ten of the analyst calls we have seen in the early hours of trading this Monday morning:

• Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Raised to Neutral from Underperform at Merrill Lynch.
• Atheros Communications (NASDAQ: ATHR) Raised to Buy from Neutral at Piper Jaffray.
• Huntsman (NYSE: HUN) raised to Hold from Underperform at Jefferies & Co
• Level 3 Communications (NASSDAQ: LVLT) Cut to Sell from Hold at Citigroup.
• Mid-America Apartment (NYSE: MAA) raised to Outperform at Robert W. Baird.
• Real Goods Solar (NASDAQ: RSOL) started as Perform at Oppenheimer.
• Teradyne (NYSE: TER) Raised to Buy from Neutral at Piper Jaffray.
• Teva Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: TEVA) raised to Overweight at HSBC.
• Third Wave (NASDAQ: TWTI) Cut to Neutral at Piper Jaffray.
• Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFMI) Cut to Neutral from Buy at UBS.

Jon C. Ogg
June 30, 2008