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Another information edge the pros enjoy is "real-time" stock quotes. You may not know it, but the NASDAQ quotes you get from CNBC, and quotes on most free Websites, are delayed 15 min. That delay can kill you when a stock is falling a point every 60 sec. And, let's be frank, a story in the New York Times or TIME can't take the place of in-depth analysis, although journalists can add valuable information...
...more than $50 at standard off-line discounters and at least twice as much at full-service firms.) Aggressive discounters on the Internet charge less than $10, and cutthroats such as Web Street Securities charge nothing--that's zilch--to handle trades of more than 1,000 shares of NASDAQ stocks. This rock-bottom pricing reflects the lower costs of e-trading--look, Ma, no broker!--and the fact that firms can glean revenue from noncommission sources like the interest on margin accounts...
INDEXCLOSE CHANGE Dow Jones Industrial 8986.64 +118.32 S&P 500 1120.01 +11.86 NYSE 582.04 +5.63 Nasdaq 1852.96 +5.30 AMEX...
Just last week the American Stock Exchange and NASDAQ Stock Market confirmed that they are exploring a merger, likely to cost several hundred jobs. For different reasons, recently merged Salomon Smith Barney is cutting as many as 1,500 positions. Chase Manhattan, after combining with Chemical Bank in 1996, is laying off about 3,000. The Swiss Bank Corp. merger with Union Bank of Switzerland has prompted a flood of pink slips in New York City. There's been selective pruning at the merged Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Discover. And since Asia tanked, international firms, including NatWest Securities, J.P. Morgan...
...only six days of trading, 1998 already has the look of a nightmare. The Dow and Nasdaq each posted 20 percent gains last year; today's selloff left them both down close to 5 percent. Broader measures are right in step. The question for investors is this: When will the hot potatoes turn into bargains...