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The firm set a "strong-buy" rating and a $76.00 price target on the stock. Raymond James' price target suggests a potential upside of 24.10% from the company's current price.

In other QUALCOMM news, EVP Cristiano Amon unloaded 14,000 shares of QUALCOMM stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, March 4th.

The firm currently has a $34.00 price target on the stock, up from their previous price target of $4.00.

Yadkin Financial Corp 's share price hit a new 52-week high during trading on Friday , Analyst Ratings News reports.

Harman International Industries hit a new 52-week high on Friday , AnalystRatingsNetwork.com reports.

Manhattan Associates reached a new 52-week high on Friday , ARN reports. The stock traded as high as $39.56 and last traded at $39.21, with a volume of 660,675 shares trading hands.

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SDN and NFV have operators planning for lower capital expenditures, but that's not yet being reflected in their projections for 2014.

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Federated Investors Inc. announced it has reached a marketing services agreement with RJ Delta Fund Management, a Buenos Aires, Argentina-based subsidiary of Raymond James .

Telephone & Data Systems announced a dividend on Wednesday, February 26th, AmericanBankingNews.com reports.

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Shares of Raymond James have received an average rating of "Buy" from the eleven brokerages that are presently covering the stock, Stock Ratings News reports .

The following financial services industry appointments were announced on Thursday.

CenturyLink's acquisition of Qwest may be long behind it, but according to Clay Bailey, senior vice president of Operations for CenturyLink, those markets are becoming a key target to win back small to medium businesses with its 1 Gbps GPON-based service.

Equity One declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, March 5th, American Banking & Market News reports.

Panera Bread , which is a long time Wall Street darling, fell into some trouble during the 3rd Quarter of 2013.

In February I wrote an article on the state of the offshore drilling industry and how, although analysts had taken a negative view on the industry's outlook, Seadrill .

U.S. private employers added 139,000 jobs in February, shy of economists' expectations, and gains in the previous month were revised lower, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday.

Raymond James Financial Inc has hired a team of two financial advisers to its independent broker/dealer firm in Brentwood, Tennessee.