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...used to it. "I'd be very suspicious," says TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec. "This was a relief rally -- an excuse to bargain-hunt on the good yen news." Psychology, even on hair-triggered Wall Street, can only take the Dow or NASDAQ so far north. "There's a long history of central banks proving themselves unable to force a currency to stay up or down," says Kadlec. "The economic fundamentals always...
Another information edge the pros enjoy is "real-time" stock quotes. You may not know it, but the NASDAQ quotes you get from CNBC, and quotes on most free Websites, are delayed 15 min. That delay can kill you when a stock is falling a point every 60 sec. And, let's be frank, a story in the New York Times or TIME can't take the place of in-depth analysis, although journalists can add valuable information...
...more than $50 at standard off-line discounters and at least twice as much at full-service firms.) Aggressive discounters on the Internet charge less than $10, and cutthroats such as Web Street Securities charge nothing--that's zilch--to handle trades of more than 1,000 shares of NASDAQ stocks. This rock-bottom pricing reflects the lower costs of e-trading--look, Ma, no broker!--and the fact that firms can glean revenue from noncommission sources like the interest on margin accounts...
INDEXCLOSE CHANGE Dow Jones Industrial 8986.64 +118.32 S&P 500 1120.01 +11.86 NYSE 582.04 +5.63 Nasdaq 1852.96 +5.30 AMEX...
Just last week the American Stock Exchange and NASDAQ Stock Market confirmed that they are exploring a merger, likely to cost several hundred jobs. For different reasons, recently merged Salomon Smith Barney is cutting as many as 1,500 positions. Chase Manhattan, after combining with Chemical Bank in 1996, is laying off about 3,000. The Swiss Bank Corp. merger with Union Bank of Switzerland has prompted a flood of pink slips in New York City. There's been selective pruning at the merged Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Discover. And since Asia tanked, international firms, including NatWest Securities, J.P. Morgan...