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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (AEP, MT, BBT, HON, INTC, LEAP, MSFT, NWS, HOT, WEN)

These are this Tuesday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from early Wall Street research calls:

American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) Cut to Hold at Jefferies.
Arcelor Mittal (NYSE: MT) Raised to Buy at UBS.
BB&T Corp. (NYSE: BBT) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.
Honeywell International (NYSE: HON) Cut to Underweight at HSBC.
Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) Reiterated Sell at Auriga.
Leap Wirless (NASDAQ: LEAP) Started as Outperform at Bernstein.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) Reiterated Buy at Auriga.
News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.
Starwood Hotels (NYSE: HOT) Raised to Buy at BofA/Merrill Lynch.
Wendy’s/Arby’s Group (NYSE: WEN) Started as Outperform at Oppenheimer.

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Jon C. Ogg

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