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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ACN, BUD, BBY, SCHW, FSLR, INFY, KNOT, LIZ, DIS, WBMD)

These are Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen from Wall Street research calls this morning:

Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) Cut to Sell at Kaufman Bros.
Anheuser-Busch (NYSE: BUD) Cut to Hold at Stifel Nicolaus.
Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) Started as Market Outperform at JMP Securities.
Charles Schwab (NASDAQ: SCHW) Raised to Neutral from Sell at Goldman Sachs.
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) Cut to Neutral at Merriman Curhan Ford; Cut to Hold at ThinkEquity.
Infosys Technologies (NASDAQ: INFY) Raised to Buy at Kaufman Bros.
The Knot, Inc. (NASDAQ: KNOT) Cut to Hold at Stifel Nicolaus.
Liz Claiborne Inc. (NYSE: LIZ) Raised to Buy at KeyBanc.
Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) Started as Buy at Jefferies.
WebMD (NASDAQ: WBMD) Raised to Buy at Citigroup.

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JON C. OGG
FEBRUARY 19, 2010

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