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UPGRADES Deutsche Bank lifts Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) from Hold to Buy, keeping its price target of €2. Click Here for more color.

Piper Jaffray raises General Motors (NYSE: GM) from Neutral to Overweight, its price target boosted from $24.50 to $31.

Orexigen (Nasdaq: OREX) 57.1% HIGHER; announces FDA identifies clear and feasible path to approval for Contrave(R). Click here to see the full report.

The stock was upgraded at JMP and Leerink Swann this morning, and downgraded at Lazard.

New York & Co (NYSE: NWY) 20.9% LOWER; Piper Jaffray downgraded the stock from Overweight to Neutral, slashes price target from $10 to $3.

NWY shares fell more than 20 percent on Friday of last week following inline quarterly results. Universal Display (Nasdaq: PANL) 17.4% HIGHER; bouncing back over the $30 level this week.

Bona Film Group (Nasdaq: BONA) 14% HIGHER; bouncing off of $3.80 ish today. Notably, the stock has pushed above the 200-day SMA today.

Apple's supply chain is likely temporarily going to be affected by the Japan earthquake and tsunami, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster writes today, but demand for Apple products is stronger than ever, he says, and that should ultimately drive shares higher.

UPGRADES Piper Jaffray upgraded Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT) from Neutral to Overweight, with a price target increased from $12 to $22.

KeyBanc raises AK Steel (NYSE: AKS) from Hold to Buy, with a price target of $20. Click Here for more color.

Goldman Sachs upgrades Youku.com (NYSE: YOKU) from Neutral to Buy with a $40 price target.

UPGRADES Susquehanna upgraded Expedia (Nasdaq: EXPE) from Neutral to Positive, with a price target of $55.

Baird upgrades Manitowoc (NYSE: MTW) from Neutral to Outperform, with a price target increased from $20 to $27.

Duncan Williams upgrades Hercules Offshore (Nasdaq: HERO) from Buy to Strong Buy, increasing their price target 33% from $4.50 to $6.

Nomura Securities upgraded Maxim Integrated Products (Nasdaq: MXIM) from Neutral to Buy.

UPGRADES BB&T Capital upgraded CSX (NYSE: CSX) from Hold to Buy, with a $79 price target.

CRT Capital upgraded Zions Bancorp (Nasdaq: ZION) from Fairly Valued to Buy, with a $28 price target. Auriga upgrades Xilinx (Nasdaq: XLNX) from Hold to Buy. Click Here for more color.

UPGRADES Goldman Sachs upgraded AmerisourceBergen (NYSE: ABC) to its Conviction Buy list. Click Here for more color.

Sanford C. Bernstein upgrades Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) from Market Perform to Outperform, with a price target boosted from $20 to $26.

UPGRADES Piper Jaffray upgraded JDS Uniphase (Nasdaq: JDSU) to Overweight, while the firm raised its price target on the stock from $13 to $17.

UBS upgrades Nike (NYSE: NKE) from Neutral to Buy, price target raised from $84 to $100. Barclays upgraded NetApp (Nasdaq: NTAP) from Equal Weight to Overweight, with a price target boosted from $56 to $67.

Wedbush upgraded Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) from Neutral to Outperform, with a price target increased from $575 to $750.

UPGRADES Morgan Stanley upgrades Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) from Equal Weight to Overweight, setting a price target of $26 on the shares. Click here for more color.

Brean Murray Carret & Co. upgrades Sinovac Biotech (Nasdaq: SVA) from Hold to Buy, with a $5.50 price target.