E*Trade (ETFC), the big discount broker, was in such bad shape that the market thought a firm like TD Ameritrade (AMTD) would walk in and get the firm for next to nothing.…
A look at Thomson/First Call securities analyst ratings and price targets for E*Trade (ETFC) shows that, among eleven brokers surveyed, their mean price target is $10.64. The discount broker, which is in…
The FT is reporting that Merrill Lynch (MER) and Citigroup (C) are looking at partial IPOs of the retail brokerage units. According to the newspaper "brokerage businesses trade on much higher earnings…
It would be fair to assume that a number of frightened customers are leaving E*Trade (ETFC) for other brokerage firms. but there is not much solid evidence of how fast that is…
A number of investors watch the list of 52-week highs each day or eachweek. It is a list that tells a story. Stocks that have risen over along period can be a…
24/7 Wall St. did an online survey asking visitors to its website which discount broker give the best service. With 106 respondents, these are the results: Scottrade …
Below is the short interest for major company stocks traded on the Nasdaq. The figures are from August 15 and compare to numbers from July 13, 2007. Investors were not willing to…
If someone told you that Charles Schwab Corp. (NASDAQ:SCHW) was back in positive territory on the day the market fell 300 points in the DJIA AND on a day that many of…
Online brokerage giant, Charles Schwab Corp. (NASDAQ:SCHW) has unveiled some new pricing plans for its bond trading to entice more online brokerage account defections away from competitors. It has unveiled new $1.00…
Stock Tickers: AMTD, ETFC, SCHW, IBKR S.A.C. and JANA have issued a response to TD AMERITRADE’s (AMTD-NASDAQ) noting that this was not necessarily the best time to pursue a combination. Of course…
(AAUK) Anglo American’s CEO will become a non-executive member of the board of directors at BP (BP).(ACAD) Acadia Pharmaceuticals traded up over 10% after Jim Cramer touted the stock as a speculative…
JANA Partners and S.A.C. Capital Advisors notified TD AMERITRADE that their funds have an aggregate “economic interest” in approximately 50 million shares of TD AMERITRADE, amounting to 8.4% of the outstanding stock,…
Stock Tickers: ETFC, AMTD, SCHW, NITE, OXPS, TRAD, IBKR The short interest in online brokers is often a guage as to what traders are thinking about the markets because it is one…
Cramer thinks a lot of the Wal-Mart (WMT-NASDAQ) bad news has already been priced in and the eBay (EBAY-NASDAQ) Skype news could be big. Cramer also said that the signal Charles Schwab…
Stock Tickers: IBKR, ETFC, AMTD, SCHW Interactive Brokers (IBKR-NASDAQ) has now opened after pricing its IPO. The IPO came public via the OpenIPO(R) format from W.R.Hambrecht, and we already posted the bidding…
