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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (AOL, BP, CELG, EMC, MU, NTRS, NTAP, POT, RIMM)

These are this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls:

AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) Started as Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
BP plc (NYSE: BP) Raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.
Celgene Corp. (NASDAQ: CELG) Started as Buy at Jefferies.
EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) Raised to Conviction Buy List at Goldman Sachs.
Micron Technology Inc. (NYSE: MU) Reiterated Buy at Auriga.
Northern Trust Corporation (NASDAQ: NTRS) Raised to Outperform at KBW.
NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc. (NYSE: POT) Cut to Sell at Soleil.
Research-in-Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) targets and/or estimates raised at UBS, Canaccord, Thomas Weisel, TD, and more.

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