Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (AET, AA, ACI, JEC, GEOY, LLL, NUE, NVDA, BTU, UNH)

These are ten of the individual analyst calls seen out there this Thursday morning ahead of a 3-day weekend:

• Aetna (NYSE: AET) cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs.
• Alcoa (NYSE: AA) Raised from Sell to Hold at Soleil.
• Arch Coal (NYSE: ACI) Raised to Buy from Hold at Citigroup.
• Jacobs (NYSE: JEC) raised to Buy from Hold at Morgan Joseph.
• GeoEye (NASDAQ: GEOY) started as Buy at Soeil.
• L3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) Raised to Outperform from Neutral at Cowen.
• Nucor Corp. (NYSE: NUE) Raised to Sector Perform from Sector Underperform at CIBC.
• NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) Cut to Neutral from Overweight at JPMorgan.
• Peabody (NYSE: BTU) Raised to Buy from Hold at Citi.
• UnitedHealth (NYSE: UNH) cut to Neutral at UBS.

We also saw RBC raise the Communication Towers Sector.

Jon C. Ogg
July 3, 2008