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• High-tech customer giveaways hot but can be pricey

  - 2005-02-18

  SAN FRANCISCO -- Forget the free toaster. Customer giveaways these days are more likely to be digital music players, PDAs and other tech gadgets. Customers who rent a car from Avis, make a travel purchase at Orbitz or spend more than $250 on a United Airlines ticket can get...

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• Wanna Invest? Be Like Mike - celebrities' portfolios - Industry Trend or Event

  - 2001-06-25

  A MOTLEY CREW OF CELEBRITIES GIVE US A PEEK AT WHAT'S INSIDE THEIR PORTFOLIOS.WHEN MARTHA STEWART TALKS, PEOPLE LISTEN The same applies to Bill Wolman and Elaine Garzarelli. The most popular financial information sessions on America Online: Year Speaker ...

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• Living Off the Margins - Industry Trend or Event

  - 2001-03-12

  Online brokerages, suffering amid lower trading, have another headache: Their lucrative margin-trading business is in a slump. AT MOST STOCK BROKERAGES, IT'S A bromide repeated to customers every day: If you borrow from us to buy stocks, you better be able to deal with the consequences. Margin trading, as...

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• Ameritrade Taps Upper Ranks of Merrill Lynch for New CEO.

  - 2001-03-05

  By Grace Shim, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 5--Ameritrade Holding Corp. on Monday named a new chief executive, turning to the ranks of a traditional Wall Street financial firm. Joseph Moglia, 51, is the senior vice president at...

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• Ameritrade Appoints Joe Moglia Chief Executive Officer

  - 2001-03-05

  Business Editors OMAHA, Neb.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 5, 2001 Ameritrade Holding Corporation (Nasdaq: AMTD), the brokerage industry's technology leader, today appointed Joe Moglia as chief executive officer. He is currently senior vice-president of Merrill Lynch and head of the Investment Performance and Product Group for Private Client. He oversees all...

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• Online Trading's Agony & Ecstasy

  - 2000-10-01

  COVER | Our ranking of BROKERS reveals who really deserves your affection. THE LOVE AFFAIR between American investors and their online brokers is growing deeper and more intense. In the first six months of this year, 3.8 million new accounts were opened, and online trading surged 87% compared with...

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• Cheap frills

  - 1998-10-01

  Some online brokers give you rock-bottom commissions and service. Online brokers were heavily engaged in a game of one-upmanship last year, testing how low they could go. The commission-slashing seems to have settled down for now--at rates unimaginable just a couple of years ago. Commissions at the top...

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