Today's Upgrades and Downgrades...

These are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls.


Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) Cut to Market Perform at BMO.

Beam Inc. (NYSE: BEAM) Started as Hold at Argus.

Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) Cut to Perform at Oppenheimer.

Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) Started as Buy at IS Group.

Ecolab Inc. (NYSE: ECL) Cut to Neutral at Citigroup.

FXCM Inc. (NYSE: FXCM) Cut to Sell at Citigroup.

Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) Cut to Market Perform at Wells Fargo.

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) Started as Overweight at Barclays.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) Started as Buy at ISI Group.

International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) Started as Outperform at Macquarie.

Interactive Brokers Group (NASDAQ: IBKR) Raised to Outperform as Bull of the Day at Zacks.

ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) Started as Equal-Weight at Barclays.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (NYSE: KMP) Started as Neutral at JPMorgan.

Plains All American Pipeline (NYSE: PAA) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan.

TAL International Group, Inc. (NYSE: TAL) named Value stock of the day at Zacks.

Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE: TER) lowered target to $12 as Bear of the Day at Zacks.