But what about technology? Alibaba (BABA), Tencent Holdings (TCEHY), and Baidu (BIDU) represent the best and brightest internet-powered Chinese tech stocks currently available for U.S. investors.

Do they really matter, though? Let's take a look at what these Wall Street heavyweights have to say about Alibaba (BABA) before we discuss the reliability of brokerage recommendations and how to ...