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Investors in the market for some valuable advice during the dog days of the Dow can get it from a new source on the Web. Last week Morgan Stanley became the first major Wall Street house to offer discount online traders (at its discoverbrokerage.com site) same-day access to high-quality research reports on more than 400 companies. For $19.95 a month, subscribers can receive analyst ratings, earnings estimates and overviews on 20 stocks...
...determined, each college will decide how much money it will kick in from its own coffers. Public schools tend to be stingier with aid, but their fees are much lower to begin with. Private schools, on the other hand, show big numbers up front but are more likely to discount. Altogether, nearly 70% of all students receive some type of aid, including loans, and the average amount of federal money awarded to students...
...though IP telephony uses Internet standards, it doesn't generally use the Internet itself. Instead it typically runs on private, superfast networks that deliver the most speed at the least cost from IP-data traffic. Some companies--like International Discount Telecommunications--do offer telephone service over the Internet, posing yet another threat to traditional phone giants. In two years, IDT has gained a million customers (who do not, by the way, need to make calls through a computer; a regular phone works fine...
...those that have just added com to their name to pump up the stock--are doomed to Home Shopping status within a year. They include Cybershop, Ktel and Marketguide. But the real Internet companies, like AOL and Yahoo, offer something different. They can sell ads for luxury cars and discount brokers that will reach well-off people, at work and at home, much more efficiently than either TV or off-line, dead-tree media. Wall Street understands that the best Net stocks are bargains, based on projected ad sales...
...weren't alone. Cendant, the result of last year's merger of HFS, a franchise company whose brands included Howard Johnson and Avis, and CUC, a kind of discount-shopping club, dazzled many a portfolio manager. After downplaying its accounting "irregularities" last April, the company last week revealed that the CUC side of the business had actually fabricated nearly $300 million in revenues over three years. The stock, which had rebounded to $25, quickly retreated to the high teens. It has since gone lower. And why shouldn't it? Most of the "earnings" that had jacked up the stock were...