Top Early Bird Analyst Calls (JBT, XPRT, PTRY, SNY, ERIC, LLTC, MXIM, NSM, NFC, RTP, SAI)

These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we are seeing early this Monday morning with more than two hours until the open:

• John Bean Technologies (JBT) Started as Buy at Janney Montgomery.
• LECG Corp. (XPRT) Raised to Buy at UBS.
• Pantry Inc. (PTRY) Raised to Outperform at FBR.
• Sanofi-Aventis (SNY) Raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley.
• Ericsson (ERIC) Cut to Underperform at Credit Suisse.
• Linear Tech (LLTC) Cut to Underperform at FBR.
• Maxim Integrated (MXIM) Cut to underperform at FBR.
• National Semiconductor (NSM) Cut to Market Perform at FBR.
• Nationwide Financial (NFC) Cut to Neutral at UBS.
• Rio Tinto (RTP) Cut to Hold at Canaccord.
• SAIC (SAI) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan.

Jon C. Ogg 
November 24, 2008