January 8, 2010 (FinancialWire) (Investrend Research Syndicate) — ValuEngine, Inc. has upgraded five companies, including Ecopetrol Sa (NYSE: EC), Telenor Group Asa (OTC: TELNY), Owens Illinois Inc (NYSE: OI), and CME Group Inc (NASDAQ: CME) to a “5″ rating, the service’s highest.

The ValuEngine Rating is an overall assessment of a stock’s attractiveness. It combines the following five factors: ValuEngine’s proprietary valuation, risk-return tradeoff, momentum, market capitalization and ValuEngine’s proprietary forecasted one-month return.

Also upgraded to a “5″ rating was Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc (NYSE: AHT).

Approximately 80 to 85 companies achieve this highest ValuEngine rating out of VE’s total coverage of over 5,000 publicly traded companies.

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