Early Bird Analyst Upgrades (NLY, ATML, DWA, NVS, PRM, SSCC, SNWL)

These are not all of the upgrades and positive analyst calls on Wall Street this morning, but these are the ones we are focusing on early this Tuesday morning:

• Annaly Capital (NLY) Raised to Buy at Merrill Lynch.
• Atmel (ATML) Started as Buy at UBS.
• Dreamworks Animation SKG (DWA) Raised to Buy at Merrill Lynch.
• Novartis (NVS) Raised to Neutral from Underperform at Credit Suisse.
• Primedia (PRM) Raised to Neutral at JPMorgan.
• Smurfit-Stone Container (SSCC) Raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.
• SonicWall (SNWL) Started as Outperform at Baird.

Jon C. Ogg
September 23, 2008

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