Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ARMH, ASML, BAC, BBT, CROX, CHKP, FITB, GME, JPM, WFR, MTB, MON, STM, ECOL, VE)

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By Jon C. Ogg Updated Published
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These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes:

ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARMH) Started as Overweight at Morgan Stanley.
ASML Holding NV (NASDAQ: ASML) Started as Underweight at Morgan Stanley.
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) Started as Neutral at Nomura.
BB&T Corp. (NYSE: BBT) Started as Perform at Oppenheimer.
Crocs Inc. (NASDAQ: CROX) Started as Buy at Sterne Agee.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP) Started as Buy at UBS.
Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ: FITB) Started as Outperform at Oppenheimer.
GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) Started as Perform at Oppenheimer.
JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM) Started as Buy at Nomura.
MEMC Electronic Materials (NYSE: WFR) Raised to Hold at Wunderlich.
M&T Bank Corp. (NYSE: MTB) Raised to Market Perform at KBW.
Monsanto Co. (NYSE: MON) Maintained Buy but removed from Conviction Buy List at Goldman Sachs (late Wednesday)
STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) Started as Equal-Weight at Morgan Stanley.
US Ecology (NASDAQ: ECOL) Started as Buy at Wunderlich.
Veolia Environnment S.A. (NYSE: VE) Raised to Buy at UBS.

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JON C. OGG

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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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