Several of the modest-sized investment houses say they should not have to buy back auction-rate securities which they sold to their customers. The dog ate their homework.
E*Trade (ETFC) had a bad quarter, in large part due to provisions for loan losses of $319 million. The company posted a net loss for the quarter of $119 million against a…
It is almost impossible to understand why business people could not use their RIM (RIMM) Blackberry devices to trade stocks until now. The Blackberry can run e-mail applications and the new versions…
Short sellers TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.(NASDAQ: AMTD), E*TRADE Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: ETFC), and Charles Schwab Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHW) look like a mixed bag on the surface, but the trends in two of…
The hallmark of some of the most successful companies over the last fifty years is that the CEOs spent a great deal of their time with customers and at company locations around…
TD AMERITRADE (NASDAQ: AMTD) came in with a solid report of $0.31 EPS on $623 million revenues. First Call had estimates $0.31 EPS on $615.66 million in revenues. It also reaffirmed guidance…
On Thursday, we’ll get to see earnings out of TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: AMTD) and E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC). In fact, that will already mark the actual end of the…
"The current financial crisis is the most serious since the second world war, and perhaps since the Great Depression."–The London Observer, March 23, 2008 Many investors find it hard to believe that…
These are not the only research calls this morning affecting stock, particularly as the world is focused on the fleecing that has occurred at Bear Stearns this morning. But these are other…
Because of its exposure to mortgage-related securities, shares in E*Trade (NASDAQ: ETFC) have fallen from a 52-week high of $25.79 to $3.63. Over the last six months, shares of rivals Schwab (NASDAQ:…
Several brands which were extremely powerful during the last few decades are about to disappear. Many of them no longer drive big sales. Some are a part of companies that are in…
E*Trade (NASDAQ: ETFC) is making its non-executive chairman Donald Layton CEO today. The move is puzzling since he is a former vice chairman of JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM). He was "installed" in…
Nasdaq short interest on January 15 shows that investors were willing to make big bets against tech share prices. The numbers are compared to statistics on December 31. Short interest in Level…
E*Trade (NASDAQ: ETC) has been the most battered and brutalized of the large discount brokers and online brokers out there. It quite frankly deserved it after the company publicly understated its gross…
TD Ameritrade (NASDAQ: AMTD) is set to report earnings tomorrow morning. What is interesting is that Joe Moglia’s discount broker is down today, while Charles Schwab (NASDAQ: SCHW) is trading higher after…
