those reports written by those big investment banks? By the way, I am not a client of any of those big banks. Thank you.
I picked my research reports up at the local pizzeria compliments of the loco broker, they have a brochure rack. Research reports are carefully crafted to avoid a lawsuit by featured company hence they are two pages long and consist of a bunch of boilerplate paragraphs with fill in the blanks for whatever stock they have in inventory. One caveat though, do not, I repeat do not leave these research reports laying around on the floor of your car. I took my car in for repair, apparently the mechanics thought I was a big swinging dick and overcharged me.
research reports from GS or lehman or any other big name companies are for sale in yahoo if you go to yahoo news on a specific ticker you can see them and purchase them for $50-100 or subscribe to thomson financial network for $40K/year like most hedge funds do. There is no free lunch.
With an account at TDAmeritrade (no monthly fees), you can get free stock reports online from: the street S&P (pretty good) ford market edge jaywalk
Thomson is very good, Ive used Thomsonone Analystics for 3 1/2 years. Ive attatched an image so you can get some idea if what if offers might be worthwhile for you to get., for me its been very useful.