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Best Buy (BBY) was upgraded to buy from neutral at Rochdale.

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Kaufman Bros. upgraded Amazon.com (AMZN) to buy from hold as it finds the risk/reward on shares attractive following the recent pullback and expects the company to report strong Q4 results. Kaufman maintains a $155 price target on the stock.

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Barrington Research upgrades Illinois Tool Works (NYSE: ITW) from Market Perform to Outperform. Price target $55.

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SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) Today we have seen two positive research reports on the company. A boutique firm called Wunderlich giving this a “Buy” rating. The more important upgrade is a debt upgrade from Standard & Poor’s. A third call is not an upgrade, but is another positive call.

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Earnings season continues with Altria (ALTR), Amazon.com (AMZN), AstraZeneca (AZN), AT&T (T), Baxter (BAX), Bristol-Myers (BMY), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Eli Lilly (LLY), JetBlue (JBLU), Microsoft (MSFT), 3M (MMM), Motorola (MOT), Nokia (NOK), Procter & Gamble (PG), Time Warner Cable (TWC), and Tyco (TYC) all announcing.

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Corning (GLW): She upgrades to Buy from Hold, with a new target of $23, up from $18, asserting that the LCD cycle likely bottomed in Q4. She sees upside to Street EPS, and expected multiple expansion.

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Cramer called the remarkable bull market strong for everything recovering from autos to chemicals to chips to healthcare. Vale S.A. (NYSE: VALE), Banco Santander S.A. (NYSE: STD), China Unicom (NYSE: CHU), and Southern Copper (NYSE: PCU) were his developing nation picks. Nordic American Tanker Shipping (NYSE: NAT), Statoil (NYSE: STO), BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP), and Bank Of Nova Scotia (NYSE: BNS) were his developed nation picks. He even endorsed JDS Uniphase Corp. (NASDAQ: JDSU).

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Netflix Inc. saw its shares jump more than 20% Thursday morning — to a new all-time high — after better-than-expected fourth-quarter results caused several brokers to upgrade the stock.

The stock was up $10.27 at $61.24 in morning trading. That helped the shares recover ground lost over the last three months and set a new record high.

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Netgear (NTGR): upgraded to Neutral from Sell, with a new target of $22, up from $18.50, on stabilizing demand from small and mid-sized businesses and from Europe, as well as tight cost controls.

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