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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ADI, ASML, BIDU, HUM, IRM, ITRI, NBR, PTEN, PBR, SD, TSO, TXN, VIA, DIS)

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These are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes:

Analog Devices Inc. (NYSE: ADI) Started as Neutral at Sterne Agee.
ASML Holding (NASDAQ: ASML) Cut to Hold at S&P Equity Research.
Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) Maintained Buy but Target raised To $115 from $93 at Citigroup.
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) Started as Positive at Susquehanna.
Iron Mountain Inc. (NYSE: IRM) Cut to Market Perform at Wells Fargo.
Itron Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) Raised to Hold from Sell at Stifel Nicolaus.
Nabors Industries (NYSE: NBR) Started as Perform at Oppenheimer.
Patterson-UTI Energy (NASDAQ: PTEN) Started as Perform at Oppenheimer.
Petroleo Brasileiro (NYSE: PBR), or Petrobras, Cut to Equal-Weight at Barclays.
SandRidge Energy, Inc. (NYSE: SD) Started as Hold at KeyBanc.
Tesoro Corporation (NYSE: TSO) Cut to Underperform at Raymond James.
Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN) Started as Neutral at Sterne Agee.
Viacom, Inc. (NYSE: VIA) Raised to Buy at Janney; Started as buy with $44 target at Nomura.
Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) Started as Buy with $40.50 Target at Nomura.

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Jon Ogg has been a financial news analyst since 1997. Mr. Ogg set up one of the first audio squawk box services for traders called TTN, which he sold in 2003. He has previously worked as a licensed broker to some of the top U.S. and E.U. financial institutions, managed capital, and has raised private capital at the seed and venture stage. He has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as New York and Chicago, and he now lives in Houston, Texas. Jon received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance at University of Houston in 1992. a673b.bigscoots-temp.com.

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