The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Wednesday included Alkermes, Alphabet, Apple, ConocoPhillips, FireEye, Lyft, McDonald's, Royal Bank of Scotland, Seagate Technology and Shopify.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Thursday included American Electric Power, CVS Health, Ecolab, Entergy, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, PepsiCo, Snap and Yelp.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Wednesday included CenturyLink, Deere, Ecolab, E*Trade, Merck, Southwest Airlines, S&P, Transocean and Walmart.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Wednesday included Aetna, Baker Hughes, Chesapeake Energy, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Cummins, Eli Lilly, General Electric, Qualcomm and Weatherford.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Tuesday included Boston Scientific, Etsy, General Electric, Morgan Stanley, SeaWorld, Skechers, Shopify, Square and Tesla.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Thursday include Alkermes, ArQule, Bluebird Bio, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Ecolab, KLA-Tencor, Pandora Media, Verisk Analytics and Vonage.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Monday include Accenture, Ecolab, Huntington Bancshares, Oasis Petroleum, Snap and Under Armour.
The Dividend Aristocrat stocks give investors the kind of long-term safety many are looking for now.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Wednesday include Broadcom, Canadian Solar, Goldman Sachs, TripAdvisor and Wal-Mart.
Friday's top analyst calls from Wall Street include American Airlines, Dollar General, Ecolab, Nike and Southern Copper.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Wednesday morning include Biogen, Discovery Communications, Mosaic, Plains All American, Phillips 66 and Rubicon Project.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has a list of stocks that it thinks should be bought ahead of earnings for this earnings season.
After a week when the indexes finally fought their way back to even for 2016, one probably would think that insiders would be selling the huge rally. Just the opposite happened.
Consumer goods maker Ecolab had a rough day last Tuesday after reporting earnings, but two days later said it would pay its regular quarterly dividend.
Paul Ausick Merrill Lynch is among the first firms to present their top picks for 2016, a decidedly conservative set of picks, and probably with good reason.
