Citi, Morgan Stanley in brokerage talks; Rubin quits
09 Jan 09Citigroup Inc is in advanced talks to sell its Smith Barney brokerage unit to Morgan Stanley, ... this year. He joined Citigroup in 1999.A combined brokerage would have more than 23,000 financial advisers before attrition, ranking as the world’s largest retail brokerage, surpassing rivals Bank [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 16:41:55
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E-Brokers
The growth of the Internet threw a new star into the ring: the e-brokerage. These include companies like Ameritech, LBJ Direct, and E-Trade ... of a traditional brokerage online. E-brokerages accept trades 24 per day, 7 days per week, Be aware ... of the $75 cost of the full service broker price mentioned earlier. Warning bells are going off [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 09:09:09
Getting Started
Opening a brokerage account is a relatively simple procedure. On average, most brokerage firms will open an account for about $2,500 ... your account with them. Whether you open an account online, by telephone, or in person, be sure and ask ... of what type of broker you will be using, it’s probably a pretty good idea to get information on a couple [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 09:14:07
Define Your Brokerage
Get out of your feed reader and comment on this post- we PROMISE that the ShamWow guy won\'t pop out when you do... Stepping Into The Future ... to promise and systematize. - Small brokerage, possibly broker-only, perhaps some higher level education ... this article! Similar Posts:The Future of the Real Estate Industry - Part Three Collaborative [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 19:00:19
Selection Of Forex Brokerage Firm
Selection Of Forex Brokerage Firm January 5th, 2009 by locknload The selection processes is not an application that can be completed quickly if ... , technical analysis tools, real-time trade alerts, and website support. If you are new to Forex trading ... you a successful Forex traders or one that wishes they never heard the word Forex. For those who [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 14:47:01
Citi & Morgan: Having Fun Yet?
Late last week, Citigroup, Inc. (C) announced it was in talks to spin-off its Smith Barney brokerage unit into a joint venture with Morgan Stanley (MS). As the deal is currently proposed, Morgan Stanley would pay $2.5 billion to Citigroup for Smith Barney, creating the world’s largest brokerage firm with nearly 20,000 brokers (before layoffs [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 03:16:59
Citi nears Morgan Stanley brokerage deal (Reuters)
Reuters - The break-up of U.S ... nears Morgan Stanley brokerage deal (Reuters) Full Story -> Share This Traders work ... futures pointed to a mixed open on Wall Street on Monday while investors worry about corporate [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 13:03:23
Today, a penny makes all the difference
There are lots of stories in banking I could talk about this morning. There's the Citigroup story of selling their brokerage division to Morgan Stanley. This is the brokerage Smith Barney that is today's remnants of the firm Salomon Brothers, famed for Liar's Poker [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 10:17:59
Can Citigroup Survive Without Smith Barney-Morgan Stanley Merger?
Citigroup’s bailout deal was struck over a weekend in November ... ) is negotiating with Citigroup (Ticker: C) to purchase a majority stake in Citi’s brokerage arm ... venture of the firms’ brokerage units. An AP source said the deal would lead Citi to a gain [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 20:06:49
Trading Post Brokerage now a CTA
It’s been a busy holiday season – the busiest I think I’ve ever had with my young family ... as a Commodity Trading Advisor. ... . It happened under the radar a couple of weeks ago, but Trading Post Brokerage Services, in addition [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 07:54:37
MADOFF TOOK ADVANTAGE OF INVESTORS; MADOFF’S AUDITORS TOOK ADVANTAGE OF EXCEPTIONS
DATELINE: January 11, 2009, Chicago Figuring out to how to regulate is always difficult ... for Auditor of Madoff (Jan. 8, 2008). As is well known by now, Madoff’s securities brokerage firm was audited ... and large as a brokerage firm that has $50 billion in assets. We should acknowledge [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 18:01:48
CondoDomain & Other Real Estate Brokerages Growing Despite “Crisis”
There are fish in the sea better than have ever been caught ~ Irish saying ... on up. CondoDomain, a flat fee based (with rebate) online real estate brokerage, just announced ... Daly, a real estate broker and blogger in the idyllic Hamptons of Long Island has just announced [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 15:02:22
For Citigroup, asset sales likely to be difficult
By Paritosh Bansal NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc may explore further asset sales after divesting its Smith Barney retail brokerage unit to ... retail-brokerage operations and the private-label credit-card businesses may also be put on the block [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 23:09:30
Another Sad Quarter Ending for Brokerages
The coming end of August will bring to a close the fifth consecutive ugly fiscal period for major investment banking firms. In what has become an all-too-familiar pattern, the waning weeks of the three-month period are marked with jittery trading, rumors of asset sales, and steady declines in earnings estimates from analysts who managed, [more...]
Date: 2008-08-22 08:23:00
It Happened One Weekend: Market Still Getting Good Grades, a Trump Foreclosure, More!
1) Because many post-peak deals have yet to close, the brokerages' fourth-quarter reports will actually appear quite rosy ... , but we're not talking about a stock trader or a hedgie here. The owner, who is also listing apartment ... phones at the offices of mortgage brokers to ring off the hook. Should you make a move [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 13:25:01
Just “Bail Out” Freakin’ Everybody!
Battered E*Trade banking on government funds Fri Nov 21, 2008 By Jonathan Spicer NEW YORK (Reuters) - The troubles at E*Trade Financial Corp (ETFC.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) have worsened and now hinge on whether it can secure ... of the discount brokerage tumbled below $1 to its lowest price ever this week, indicating that investors [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 00:55:58
Thinkorswim- The Best Brokerage
by Walter Fox A time when the financial institutions because of their harsh conditions easily was not getting credit ... categories including equities, the fund currency, bonds, futures trading of mutual funds can help ... . More and more people jumped into the competition, introduction of online options trading systems. They are aware [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 17:17:10
Another Wall Street casualty
This Wall Street Journal report($) detailing one more casualty of the financial crisis really makes you stop and think ... Stearns manager. Barry Fox, a research supervisor who worked for nine years at the brokerage firm ... weeks later, a Chicago futures trader fatally shot himself after reportedly sustaining big losses [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 17:35:00
5 Important Things All Forex Investors Should Know
There is a whole plethora of things that Forex Investors should know about before they start to wear the gloves necessary for them to handle the ... and they may vary greatly from one brokerage to another. If you are dealing with a private broker ... dollars is the minimum. You should also know that putting your money into a broker’s account gives [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 19:19:34
e-Resources (2)
Three factors determine cash ?ows: (1) sales, (2) after-tax operating pro?t margins, and (3) capital requirements. The price of a ? ... , and other claims on real assets. Spot markets and futures markets are terms that refer to whether ... a wide range of ?nancial services, including investment banking, brokerage operations, insurance [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 00:33:57
Selection Of Forex Brokerage Firm
The selection processes is not an application that can be completed quickly if you are really going to take time to examine all the factors that could or will make you a successful Forex traders or one that wishes they never heard the word Forex. For those who are new to the trade, Forex means Foreign Exchange Market where it involves buying [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 14:46:28
Selection Of Forex Brokerage Firm
The selection processes is not an application that can be completed quickly if you are really going to take time to examine all the factors that could or will make you a successful Forex traders or one that wishes they never heard the word Forex. For those who are new to the trade, Forex means Foreign Exchange Market where it involves buying [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 17:46:09
Full Service Stockbrokers
You can find full service stockbrokers at the most well-known and established companies, ... For all their eminent reputations, however, brokerage firms use a substantially different track for selling stock than ... -fashioned money. Bluntly put, stockbrokers have to make a living, too. And that lifestyle isn’t cheap [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 09:00:42
Darwin Didn’t Say Quite What You Thought He Did
What Darwin actually said was a lot more inspirational considering where we are now ... at the checkout counter. In it she recommends loading up on stocks to be positioned to ride the wave up, which ... . However, she’s not alone in advising retail customers to stay in stocks, the large brokerage [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 11:05:51
Oil recovers with Dow rally
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The daily survey from motorist group price of oil on Monday reversed AAA. Prices peaked at $4 ... , have already started cutting back founder of commodities brokerage on oil use, said Cordier ... has already taken investors sold off crude futures place, and it's going to take a as stock indexes around [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 17:17:35
Thinkorswim- The Best Brokerage
by Walter Fox There was a time when people were not getting easy credit from financial institutions due to their rigid conditions ... trading business found great new methods of detection. Online option and people with the beginning of the trading system jumped into the fray. Within a few trading sessions, felt the importance [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 13:51:33
Trying To Make Sense of The Brokerage Bust
Image via Wikipedia Fifty to a hundred thousand high paying jobs are going to go up in smoke in NYC before this is all over ... business is changing, this is what's going on, ..... the stock broker as we know it is gone, hedge ... banking and money management. In the cheap-money period of 2002 to 2007, Wall Street’s thirst [more...]
Date: 2008-09-18 10:51:55
Citigroup: Gold Over $2,000, Massive Inflation, Depression, and Civil Disorder
An internal client note from Citigroup lays out what the company predicts for the world’s economic future: ... which will lead to “civil disorder” and possibly “wars”. Gold is now trading at $812 an ounce, down ... trading director at Equidex Brokerage Group Inc., claims “inflation will continue to make gold bullish” [more...]
Date: 2008-11-27 06:49:25
Late Selloff Seals Stocks’ Drop
A grim employment report and a late bout of across-the-board selling pushed stocks lower on Friday, bringing a tough week for stocks to a queasy end ... , which was also said to be looking to sell its Smith Barney brokerage business. Its shares ended down ... woes and energyStock futures slide after Wal-Mart disappoints [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 21:28:46
The Inevitable Consolidation of Retail Brokerage
The Inevitable Consolidation of Retail Brokerage Jan 12th, 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized You don’t need to be Carnac to know that the investment banking industry will never be the same [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 00:35:09
Review Of E*Trade Bank High Interest Savings and Checking Accounts
When most people think of ETrade, the popular online discount brokerage firm with the cutesy talking baby commercials probably comes to mind ... for future brand name recognition. Since its days as a leader in the do-it-yourself stock investing ... a low cost discount broker, the company has jumped into the online banking business. Hoping [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 08:39:38
Embody the habits of the rich to enrich your own wallet
1. Tax-free: Contributing and trading within a tax-qualified brokerage account means that you could be earning up to 30% additional in returns ( ... or a fabulous lifestyle. 8. Switch-Hit: Do as much of your day trading as possible in a tax-qualified ... a small percentage of your stock portfolio for trading. (Don’t trade the whole nest egg.) Subscribe [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 13:02:35
Loading Up on PBR
A little over a month ago, as a result of the dramatic fall in the market capitalizations of oil companies, I opened up a brokerage account with Ameritrade to take advantage of the fire sale. Besides ... up with the risk, you could buy oil futures. But I don't like that kind of risk. Better I think is investing [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 06:13:00
Retirement Investing Crisis
by Doug West The meltdown on Wall Street has taught us all that: “You Better Learn To Make Your Own Investment Decisions - And Not Let Brokers Make Choices ... just like a stock in your discount brokerage account. If you were locked into a fund when the market [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 02:23:03
How to Invest in CDs
The idea of investing in CDS or certificate of deposit is not that simple ... or brokerage firm? When you consider hiring a broker, it would be an easy process but you need ... in person. There are also CD accounts that you can avail online. These banks don’t have any overhead [more...]
Date: 2008-07-26 00:30:36
When trading stops - Major stock exchange outages this decade
The recent world-wide financial chaos has reminded us how sensitive the stock market is, with sharp up- and downturns ... for more than three hours due to an outage caused by a software glitch. May 25, 2005: Moscow Interbank Currency ... -time stock prices to banks and brokerages. July 18, 2000: Frankfurt Stock Exchange Trading was stopped [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 15:13:35
The Future of the Real Estate Industry - Part Three
Get out of your feed reader and comment on this post- we PROMISE that the ShamWow guy won\'t pop out when you do.. ... of a new direction to help them through the remainder of this housing recession.” The Future ... heavy company structures are dinosaurs and will become extinct. The future brokerage involves a flat [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 14:00:03
Switched My Main Broker to Questrade
A few days ago one of my colleagues here at the DIV-Net wrote about online brokerages and using Zecco as low cost provider ... , online brokers offer a commodity. What you get from one broker is very similar ... to open an account with them. In this post I would like to talk about a Canadian broker [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 11:00:00
Readings: Package II, Brokers’ gloom, Crude oil spiral
Economic Times: Package-II to boost exports, realty The government is expected to come out with a second stimulus package in the next few days to ... The current downtrend in brokerage volumes is the longest ever in broker memory. Average daily ... oil and diesel. Crude-oil futures for February delivery fell $3.63, or 9.3 percent, to $35.35 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 05:21:49
Madoff victims may get some cash within a month-report
Investors who lost money in Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50 billion fraud might begin recovering some of their funds as soon as next month, ... . The first payouts from the investor protection fund could occur in “a month or two” if the cash isn’ ... . SIPC maintains a special reserve fund authorized by Congress to help investors at failed brokerage [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 05:58:27
Choosing a Broker
Choosing a Broker Opening a brokerage account is a decision that should be well-researched ... or sell stock… not to analyze stocks. Brokers earn their money from commissions on sales in most ... : Full service brokers and discount brokers. Full service brokers can normally propose several types [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 17:09:02
Obama Appoints Mary Schapiro
Barack Obama has named Financial Industry Regulatory Authority chief executive Mary Schapiro as chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Schapiro is a former SEC commissioner who also headed the commodity futures trading commission and is now the head of Finra, which inspects U.S. brokerage firms, writes rules for those selling [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 17:47:01
Battered E*Trade banking on government funds
Battered E*Trade banking on government funds November 26th, 2008 By Jonathan Spicer NEW YORK (Reuters) - The troubles at E*Trade Financial Corp (ETFC.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) have worsened and now hinge on whether it can secure ... of the discount brokerage tumbled below $1 to its lowest price ever this week, indicating that [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 04:54:02
Forex Brokers Review
by Singapore Trader Reports If you are trading CFDs or Forex, you must have an online or over the phone broker ... it is something that has to do with your hard earned money. As choosing the right online broker is an important ... settling for an online stock broker? 1) Check what their brokerage rate is. Note that for every [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 11:21:01
This Isn’t An Aberrant Market, It Is The Market
A report from Crains New York. “Manhattan’s residential real estate market frenzy is fizzling. The number of apartment sales fell during the second quarter from the year-ago period, according to reports released Wednesday by four major brokerages. Two of the firms also reported a sharp increase in inventory. The average apartment price hit $1 [more...]
Date: 2008-07-02 14:35:05
Oil Ready For Another Big Bull Run?
Bolling: Oil Should Be in the $70-$85 Range, Buy the DipsPosted Jan 07, 2009 11:53am EST by Aaron Task in Investing, CommoditiesRelated: USO, DUG, ... futures contracts expire each month.Bolling said he will add to the USO position if/when spot crude falls ... from the different brokerage houses areall over the place. The parameters they are looking at [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 21:15:00
Brokerage Stock Trading Information
I have seen that online services are far more accessible, flexible and will be available at low commission than offline brokers. You can get tons of online stock trading info online to make informed trading choices. However ... . If you are meant to trade with a trade a touch, discount online trading is definitely better [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 15:44:23
Why We Want To Meet You First
Have you ever been driving around a neighborhood and seen a home for sale that really piqued your curiosity? Most likely you called the real estate brokerage office and asked to see the property, only to be asked to come to the office. The office might even be on the opposite side of town! [more...]
Date: 2008-07-29 10:27:33
Roger Biduk; Wall Street Lower on Earnings Concerns
Roger Biduk writes: U.S. stocks fell on Monday for a fourth consecutive session with investors stepping tentatively before Alcoa Inc ... components trading lower. Weighing the most on the blue-chip index, shares of Alcoa (AA) declined 9.6 ... its brokerage business with Morgan Stanley (MS). Morgan led all S&P 500 financial stock gainers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 18:24:15
Historic Home Sales Predict Future Path - Astounding!
Having just experienced the toughest year in real estate brokerage since before 1991, my thoughts have already turned to 2009 and beyond, wondering what the future has in store for this battered real estate market. As the eternal ... , and I have presented proof that Tallahassee home prices are dropping in a previous blog. The Future [more...]
Date: 2008-09-23 11:52:02
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