2 startups are combining to fix a problem with Wall Street stock research

Visible Alpha, a startup backed by five banks, is acquiring ONEaccess.
The two firms help investors answer two key questions in the equity research world.
What is your investment recommendation based on? And how valuable is your research?
Wall Street research analysts have lots of ways to communicate their opinions to investor clients.
They can say that a stock is a buy or a sell. They can be "overweight" or "underweight" a stock. They can be above consensus or below. They can be neutral or hav