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...reference to the growing legion of e-traders who are sucking money from money managers at a rate that is starting to test their nerves. Sure, the $5.9 trillion fund industry is still chugging along quite nicely. But after a decade of explosive growth, it seems poised for a shakeout, as too many stock funds (about 3,500 at last count) scramble for a slowing money supply...
...Palo Alto minute for a viable, affordable high-speed link to our home. But which pipe will we choose? Cable? Telephone? Wireless? Satellite? No one knows for sure, and Microsoft and AOL--both of whose businesses depend on the answer--are at pains to appear neutral in the coming shakeout. "We're pipe agnostic," says Microsoft vice president Brad Chase. Which actually means they have to be ready to pray at all the altars. That's why Microsoft and AOL were vying to be best man at the wedding of AT&T and cable giant MediaOne; they both wanted...
...parks on the ground and more on the way, industry analysts are issuing dire warnings: "Orlando is now a zero-sum game," says Curt Alexander, an analyst with Media Group Research. "There will be bloodletting of biblical proportions." The theme-park glut promises bargains for consumers but a brutal shakeout that could pound the earnings of park owners Disney, Seagram (Universal) and Anheuser-Busch (Busch Gardens, Sea World...
...their popularity, online firms are unlikely to drive full-service brokers into investment history. "There are always going to be people who don't have either the time or the confidence to manage their portfolios," says Burnham of Piper Jaffray. And with competition growing fiercer, he foresees a shakeout in which the largest e-brokers gobble up smaller ones, leaving investors with fewer online options. But with commissions having fallen to nothing and formerly hard-to-get information readily available, the future of investing is already predictable. E-trading is yet another example of the great leveling power...
...rest of the industry, it continues to face a painful shakeout. And fewer lenders could mean that rates for sub-prime borrowers will be heading higher. Even in prosperous times, this little-known corner of the financial world is likely to remain a risky business...