Starbucks Debuts Smoothies as Stocks Head Into Final Trading of Q1

It was a choppy start at Tuesday's opening bell as Wall Street headed into the final trading day of Q1. U.S. home prices held steady for the most part in January. The S&P Case-Shiller Index of 20 cities were flat on a month-to-month basis. However, housing prices, year-over-year did rise 4.6%. IBM (IBM) will invest $3 billion to a new business involving an ‘Internet of Things.’ The unit’s first partnership is with the Weather Company, the parent of the Weather Channel on data services to businesses. Starbucks (SBUX) is debuting a new line of smoothies at some of its U.S. locations. The deal with Dannon will also include yogurt parfaits and Greek yogurt cups that will be sold at grocery stores.