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...Research puts the amount of assets invested online in 1997 at $120 billion and projects that by 2002 the number will rise to $688 billion. Already, cyberspace brokerages like E*TRADE and e.Schwab are filching millions of dollars in business from land-based icons like Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney by using the Web's data-processing efficiencies to cut pricing to the bone. E*TRADE charges a commission as low as $14.95 for a 100-share trade. e.Schwab's online fees are $29.95. A trade by phone through Fidelity costs $48. E*TRADE CEO Christos Cotsakos says...
...lead to yet another conclusion. The Dow rose or fell at least 1% on seven of 10 consecutive trading days at the end of August. Such strings of volatile trading days have been rare, occurring roughly 20 times since 1950, says Alan Shaw, chief technical analyst at Smith Barney. The clusters have overwhelmingly been closer to the start than the end of long rallies. "It's a wives' tale that this volatility is a precursor of some negative move," Shaw says. A streak of volatile prices last occurred late in 1990, which was the start of the current bull market...
...keep it warm an hour a week by watching Star Trek videos. Public Broadcasting has taken a beating in recent years from critics and Congress, but it remains the single most important and trustworthy friend for our children, be they watchers of Arthur, Sesame Street or that big doofus Barney. The basic mission at pbs is to get children to learn. The basic mission almost everywhere else is to get children...
...mostly sports, though occasionally we'll catch them munching on Nickelodeon. (We discourage them from Rugrats, which is admittedly funny but alarmingly disrespectful of adults.) Our three-year-old twin girls are generally too busy playing with each other to watch TV, but they can sometimes be corralled by Barney & Friends or Sesame Street...
...head hurts. Signifies any daytime show such as Live with Regis & Kathie Lee, Montel Williams, Barney & Friends. See also: MHHSMIGTCIO--my head hurts so much I'm going to chop it off. Signifies the Rosie O'Donnell Show...