spending trends

Mint is now aggregating data from its 1.5 million users and mining it for personal spending trends. To demonstrate the concept, Mint launched its Trends section with some teaser data, like graphs on the most frugal cities in America.

UPGRADES: Wunderlich Securities upgrades Flour (NYSE: FLR) from Hold to Buy and raises their price target from $49 to $65.

The firm commented, We believe Fluor is well positioned globally to take advantage of longer-term spending trends, but had concerns that nearer-term backlog erosion would be significant in this economic environment.

Citigroup upgrades EchoStar (Nasdaq: SATS) from Sell to Buy and raises thier price target from $13.50 to $21.