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Online brokers were soon seeing their business pick up. "There has definitely been a surge in the past 12 to 18 months," says Fred Tomczyk, chief executive of TD Ameritrade. "We've had very good growth trends." In TD Ameritrade's fiscal first quarter that ended on Dec. 31, 2009, net new assets rose to $8.7 billion from $7.8 billion a year earlier, according to Kim Hillyer, the company's senior manager of communications...
...will definitely be monitoring this," he says. "We don't like losing, and if we need to respond, we'll respond." Tomczyk adds that his firm would even take some hits to profits to hold the line. "It's about growth in the long term and being competitive first and foremost," he says. "If that means your profits get squeezed [in the short term], your profits get squeezed." (See the worst business deals...
...squeeze is already on at some firms. Schwab's lower commission announced in January, for example, will reduce revenue by $15 million to $20 million in the first quarter, and cut earnings by about 4 cents a share, or about 6%, in full year 2010, according to Richard Repetto, an analyst at Sandler O'Neill. Repetto estimates the company would need to see a 30% increase in daily average revenue trades to offset the lower pricing...
...when it comes to using nuclear power at home, Obama evidently feels a lot friendlier. Speaking at a job-training center in Lanham, Md., the President announced more than $8 billion in federal loan guarantees for the construction of the first nuclear power plants in the U.S. in more than 30 years. "To meet our growing energy needs and prevent the worst consequences of climate change, we'll need to increase our supply of nuclear power," said Obama. "It's that simple." (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...time that was very meaningful and very special because I was doing extensive Jewish learning for the first time since my childhood,” Simon said...