Schwab cuts trading fees, stock dips
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Charles Schwab Corp., the biggest US discount brokerage, announced Monday its second cut in trading fees since June amid increasing competition.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is poised to curb fund companies from steering stock trades to brokerage firms that agree to sell their funds.
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Online banking and brokerage firm  E*Trade Financial Corp. ET.N on Tuesday cut transaction fees  for small investors and some options trading accounts in a  strategy to attract more retail investors and options traders.
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The Charles Schwab Corporation, the retail brokerage firm, said Wednesday that fourth-quarter profit fell 34 percent from the period a year ago, which included a tax gain and earnings from its U.S. Trust wealth management unit, which has since been sold.
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Stocks turned lower on Thursday, with the Nasdaq losing 1 percent, on a handful of disappointing earnings reports, including results from cable TV operator Comcast Corp .
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How low can they go? Fidelity  Investments recently slashed fees on several of its index  funds, knocking their annual expense ratio from 0.19 to 0.10  percent. E-Trade Financial countered by dropping the annual  charges on two of its funds to 0.09 percent.
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Charles Schwab Corp., the biggest US discount brokerage, reported Friday a third-quarter net loss versus a year-earlier profit on charges from cost cutting and losses from discontinued operations.
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Charles Schwab Corp.  the biggest U.S. discount brokerage, on Monday said it would cut trading fees for the second time since June in a bid to outmaneuver rivals amid fierce competition.
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The Dow industrial average turned lower, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were little changed as concerns about fallout from the housing slump cut short an earlier bounce.
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Brokerage announces weaker-than-expected results dragged lower by a writedown in the value of some of its assets.
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Discount brokerage Charles Schwab Corp. on Thursday confirmed plans to sell its memberships on the New York Stock Exchange during the first quarter of 2005.
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In its effort to cut down on the type of rapid, short-term trades in mutual funds that were at the center of the industry's market-timing scandal, Fidelity Investments has imposed new fees so stringent that major clients such as the Coca-Cola Co. 401(k) retirement plan have stopped investing in Fidelity's funds.
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NEW YORK  -Stocks fell on Thursday, with the benchmark S&P 500 plummeting to a 15-month low, as news of a plunge in regional factory activity and a hefty loss at Merrill Lynch further clouded an increasingly dire view of the economy.
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A rule change at the New York Stock Exchange will allow brokers on its trading floor to handle non-NYSE listed stocks, in a move meant to stem trading share losses to newer competitors.
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The New York Stock Exchange said on  Thursday it instituted downside trading curbs as U.S. stocks  fell sharply in early trading.
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Online banking and brokerage firm  E*Trade Financial Corp. ET.N on Tuesday unveiled broad cuts  to its transaction fees as part of a strategy to attract retail  investors and options traders.
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US stocks ended lower on Monday in a quiet trading day as a sharp drop in the price of oil knocked down shares of energy-related companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp.