Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AA, ACL, CREE, EMC, GNW, JNPR, KMP, MPEL, MWW, TSO, TASR, YGE)

These are this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research notes this morning:

Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) Cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.
Alcon Inc. (NYSE: ACL) Cut to Market Perform at BMO Capital.
Cree, Inc. (NASDAQ: CREE) Raised to Buy at UBS.
EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC)  Raised to Overweight at Piper Jaffray.
Genworth Financial (NYSE: GNW) Cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.
Juniper Networks (NASDAQ: JNPR) Raised to Outperform at Wells Fargo.
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (NYSE: KMP) Cut to Neutral at UBS.
Melco Crown Entertainment (NASDAQ: MPEL) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
Monster Worldwide (NYSE: MWW) Cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs.
Tesoro (NYSE: TSO) Cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.
Taser International (NASDAQ: TASR) Cut To underweight at JPMorgan.
Yingli Green Energy (NYSE: YGE) Cut to Neutral at Macquarie.

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