Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AA, AMZN, EXPE, YGE, JCP, JKS, MOT, NBIX, QLGC, SCSC, SOLF, VALE, VSAT, VMW)

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Maybe everyone is hanging on for the unemployment report, but this Friday morning there are many key influential analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls.

Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Maintained Buy but removed from Conviction Buy List at Goldman Sachs.
Expedia Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
Yingli Green Energy (NYSE: YGE) Cut to Perform at Oppenheimer.
J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE: JCP) Cut to Hold at S&P Equity Research (late Thursday call).
Jinko Solar (NYSE: JKS) Cut to Perform at Oppenheimer.
Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) Cut to Hold with $10 target at Citigroup.
Neurocrine Biosciences (NASDAQ: NBIX) Started as Buy at Jefferies.
QLogic Corp. (NASDAQ: QLGC) Raised to Buy at Canaccord.
ScanSource Inc. (NASDAQ: SCSC) Raised to Buy at Stifel Nicolaus.
Solarfun Power Holdings Co. (NASDAQ: SOLF) Cut to Hold with $13 target at Auriga.
Vale S.A. (NYSE: VALE) Cut to Neutral at UBS.
ViaSat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) Raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer.
VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) Started as Market Perform at FBR.

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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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