Today's noteworthy upgrades include: Adobe (ADBE) upgraded on positive catalysts at RBC Capital... Alamos Gold (AGI) upgraded to Outperform from Sector Perform at Scotia Howard Weil... Bill Barrett (BBG) upgraded to Buy from Accumulate at KLR Group... Demandware (DWRE) upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Mizuho... Echo Global (ECHO) upgraded to Outperform from Neutral at Macquarie... Google (GOOG) upgraded to Buy from Hold at Stifel... Magellan Midstream (MMP) upgraded to Buy from Hold at Stifel... Moelis (MC) upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform at Keefe Bruyette... National Interstate (NATL) upgraded to Market Perform at Raymond James... Omega Protein (OME) upgraded to Outperform from In-Line at Imperial Capital... Orbital ATK (OA) upgraded to Buy from Hold at Argus... PDC Energy (PDCE) upgraded to Buy from Accumulate at KLR Group... Rackspace (RAX) upgraded to Strong Buy from Outperform at Raymond James... SFX Entertainment (SFXE) upgraded to Overweight from Market Perform at Albert Fried... Shenandoah (SHEN) upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform at FBR Capital... Terex (TEX) upgraded to Buy from Hold at Evercore ISI... Thompson Creek (TC) upgraded to Hold from Sell at Deutsche Bank... Towerstream (TWER) upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Rodman & Renshaw... Verizon (VZ) upgraded to Buy from Neutral at MoffettNathanson... Vermilion Energy (VET) upgraded to Buy from Hold at Desjardins... VimpelCom (VIP) upgraded to Buy from Hold at HSBC... Wendy's (WEN) upgraded to Neutral from Underperform at Credit Suisse... WesBanco (WSBC) upgraded to Outperform from Neutral at Macquarie... XL Group (XL) upgraded to Conviction Buy from Neutral at Goldman.

In a regulatory filing, Alphabet disclosed that its CEO Sundar Pichai sold 22.5K shares of common stock on April 17th in a total transaction size of $3.54M.

The U.K. plans to hold talks this month with Apple (AAPL), Meta (META), Alphabet (GOOGL) and others to push a voluntary charter granting parents more control of social media use by young teens, Bloomberg's Ellen Milligan reports. According to people familiar with the matter, ministers want to launch a consultation later this month to gauge ways of limiting the potential harm to children caused by social media, and the proposed voluntary charter may involve tech firms agreeing to alert parents when their children are repeatedly looking up disturbing content. Reference Link

Advertising Analysts, along with experts from VaynerMedia, discuss 1Q ad spending trends across key platforms including Search (GOOG), Social (META PINS SNAP RDDT), CTV/Video (ROKU NFIX), Retail Media (AMZN) on an Analyst/Industry conference call to be held on April 17 at 2 pm.

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