Benchmark U.S. crude oil for April delivery rose 13 cents to $61.55 a barrel Monday. Brent crude oil for May delivery rose 9 cents to $64.62 a barrel.
Wholesale gasoline for April delivery rose 2 cents to $1.96 a gallon. April heating oil rose 1 cent to $1.83 a gallon. April natural gas rose 4 cents to $2.58 per 1,000 cubic feet.
Gold for April delivery fell $3.60 to $1,738.10 an ounce. Silver for May delivery fell 55 cents to $25.77 an ounce and May copper rose 3 cents to $4.14 a pound.
The dollar fell to 108.80 Japanese yen from 108.89 yen. The euro rose to $1.1942 from $1.1909.
Top Ten Brokerages You Can Trust
There are more than 500 brokerages and research houses that hire analysts to issue ratings and recommendations. Collectively, these brokerages and their analysts publish approximately 250,000 ratings each year. Every trading day, there are nearly 700 reports and recommendations that are released to the public. To say that it's difficult to separate the signal from the noise when interpreting this data would be an understatement.
MarketBeat has developed a system to track each brokerage and research house's stock recommendations and score them based on their past performance. If Goldman Sachs predicted that Apple's stock price would hit $150.00 on a specific date, how accurate were they? If Bank of America issued a "strong-buy" rating on a stock, how did that stock perform compared to the broader market over the following twelve months? This tracking system has been applied to the 1,000,000+ ratings that MarketBeat has tracked during the last ten years to identify which brokerages you can really trust (and which you can safely ignore).
This slide show lists the 10 brokerages who have issued the most accurate analyst recommendations over the past several years, as measured by the performance of their "buy" ratings and the accuracy of their price targets.
View the "Top Ten Brokerages You Can Trust".
