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...White House Council of Economic Advisers during the first Clinton Administration, pointed out that the Internet is starting to roll through financial industries as it has through American retailing. Big brokerage houses like Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Merrill Lynch are launching online services against burgeoning upstarts like Charles Schwab and E*Trade--just as Internet-based brokers start to offer subscribers such customized services as video interaction with financial advisers. The losers? Maybe neither. "These new approaches aren't displacing anyone," said Tyson, "but allowing more of this to occur than could otherwise...
Jameson recently switched from Charles Schwab to Paine Webber, and says she is much happier. She touted two other high-tech stocks, CMGI and EDIG. Jameson was more bullish than Peter Lynch and, at least to me, much more convincing. "I just bought Parkervision today. It came out with a new computer chip...
...counterattack is well under way and gathering momentum. Traditional merchants have taken heart from, of all places, Charles Schwab, which has broken down the walls between its off-line brokerage business (with 335 retail locations) and Schwab.com its online business. Schwab had to be spry enough to devise cross-channel pricing for stock trades; allow account access via the Web, telephone and in person; and create advertising that speaks to the Web savvy as well as the Net illiterate. The result: over the past two years, Schwab has emerged as the best-positioned retail brokerage, with more than $628 billion...
...that Schwab has proved that the clicks-and-mortar strategy works, this Christmas season we are seeing that Schwab may be the precursor rather than the exception. Robert Kenzer, CEO of Kenzer Corp., a retail executive-search firm, says retailers will have to do online, off-line and catalog in order to survive "or have strategic alliances that permit them to do all three." Companies such as Circuit City and eToys' competitors KB Toys and Toys "R" Us are proving they're not out of the game. "Clicks-and-mortar has a lot of inherent advantages," says Seema Williams...
Much of what is behind the new hope is a better understanding of why the cord doesn't heal itself. In 1988 neuroscientist Martin Schwab of the University of Zurich isolated substances in the central nervous system whose sole purpose appears to be to block growth. In a healthy spine, the chemicals establish boundaries that regulate cell growth. After an injury, they do little but harm. In recent years, however, Schwab has developed antibodies that neutralize the growth blockers, allowing regeneration to occur...