Ja, the London and Frankfurt based investment bank has given a big thumbs up to DaimlerChrysler and moved them from the "Add" to "Buy" category. But at the same time, the article on the news is somewhat interesting:

While the parties involved talk about whether they'll talk, Banc of America's taking a big step forward and raising their rating on General Motors from "sell" to "neutral." The investment bank's dropping all their chips on black and praying a GM/Renault-Nissan partnership will take place. Well...it's really their clients…

Honest Abe would surely give his namesake auto brand a crisp five-spot for its customer- service performance. According to JD Power and Associates (yes, them again), Lincoln owners who brought their new cars in for service within the first three years topped the list of most satisfied with their dealer service…