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Investors and traders alike are usually on the lookout for new ideas that will generate profits. 24/7 Wall St. looks over research calls from Wall St. and beyond to find great ideas, from value stocks to growth stocks to dividend stocks. Many research-driven ideas for stocks to buy and to sell come from independent research firms, and many ideas come from the large sell-side investment banking firms on Wall St.
These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from select Wall St. research calls. A new wave of initiations at UBS is skewing the calls to include many more technology and Internet names compared to normal.
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) started as Neutral at UBS.
AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) started as Buy with $44 price target at UBS.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) maintained Buy but removed from Conviction Buy List at Goldman Sachs (FULL SUMMARY).
Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. (NASDAQ: BWLD) started as Neutral at Credit Suisse.
Charles Schwab Corp. (NYSE: SCHW) cut to Neutral from Outperform at Credit Suisse.
CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CME) cut to Neutral from Outperform at Credit Suisse.
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) started as Buy with $64 target at UBS.
Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) cut to Perform from Outperform at Oppenheimer.
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) started as Neutral at UBS.
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Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) started as Buy with $945 target at UBS.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) cut to Neutral from Buy at BofA/Merrill Lynch.
Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) started as Sell at UBS.
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) cut to Sell from Neutral with $16 target price at Goldman Sachs.
LinkedIn Corp. (NYSE: LNKD) started as Neutral at UBS.
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) cut to Neutral from Outperform at Credit Suisse.
Priceline.com Inc. (NASDAQ: PCLN) started as Buy with $825 price target at UBS.
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Rackspace Hosting Inc. (NYSE: RAX) cut to Market Perform at Wells Fargo.
SunTrust Banks Inc. (NYSE: STI) cut to Neutral from Outperform at Credit Suisse.
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) started as Buy with $27 target at UBS.
Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP) started as Buy with $30 target at UBS.
Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) started as Neutral at UBS.
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