Morgan Stanley

UPGRADES
Morgan Stanley upgrades Sandisk, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNDK) from Equal Weight to Overweight and setting a price target of $37. Click Here for more color.

Oppenheimer made changes on two major Home Improvement Retailers:Home Depot (NYSE: HD) from Perform to Outperform, and a price target raised to $37 from $26; and

Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) price target upped to $32 from $28, and the firm maintain's their Outperform rating.J.P. Morgan upgrades Whole Foods (NASDAQ: WFMI) from Neutral to Overweight. Price target ...

UPGRADES
Marriot (NYSE: MAR) gets an upgrade from three firms:Oppenheimer from Underperform to Perform. The firm also raised its price target from $19 to $25;

Susquehanna upgrades from Negative to Neutral. Click Here for more color;

FBR Research maintains a 'Market Perform' rating but raises their price target from $26 to $28. Click Here for more color.Deutsche Bank upgrades PNC Bank (NYSE: PNC) from Hold to Buy and raised their price target ...

Homebuilders are among one of the best performing sectors today as we have several news items which suggest that a bullish sentiment could be returning to the market. The SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF (NYSE: XHB) is up more than 2.7% today.
following DR Horton's (NYSE: DHI) surprise Q1 profit last week ...

UPGRADES:
Jefferies upgraded Strabucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) from Hold to Buy, lifting their price target from $22 to $25.

Citigroup upgrades DR Horton (NYSE: DHI) from Sell to Hold with a $10.50 price target.

Morgan Stanley is upgrading Deere (NYSE: DE) to Overweight from Equal-Weight with a $64 price target (prev. $48). For more color, Click Here.

J.P. Morgan upgrades WellPoint (NYSE: WLP) from Neutral to Overweight.

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Has the Tide Turned?

If you had been out on the golf course yesterday afternoon and someone told you in the clubhouse that the Dow closed down 8 points, you might be inclined to think that it was a blasé day where nothing of subsequence occurred. However, you’d also be mistaken.

Okay, we’ll admit that the price action wasn’t terribly inspiring yesterday and that on a chart basis it did appear that it was a rather no-nothing day. But, it is our humble opinion that there was definitely something worthy of note to take away from the session.

No, we’re not talking about the fact that a couple of big-name banks will need to raise some additional capital. Actually, it is kind of surprising that it took so long for the results of the so-called stress tests to be leaked. And no, we are most definitely not talking about the ...