Word: trades
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...prices are as much as a third below Kodak's on some products. B. Alexander Henderson, the head of technology research at Prudential Securities, says Kodak will have to cut prices to narrow the gap with Fuji. Kodak has charged, via a closely watched U.S. complaint before the World Trade Organization, that the playing field isn't level, because Japan maintains barriers to trade that limit Kodak's access to Japanese markets...
Fisher launched the trade case in part to get Kodak on the offensive and force Fuji to raise prices. He took a similar tack at Motorola, using U.S. government negotiators to open the Japanese market for microchips. Last week House Speaker Newt Gingrich and minority leader Dick Gephardt urged President Clinton to use "all available means" to pry open Japan's market. Fuji denies any wrongdoing, and it is preparing to make the issue moot in the future by adding a 35-mm color-film plant, part of a $200 million investment, to its existing manufacturing complex in Greenwood...
This makes Andy Klein angry--or at least aware of a market niche. His company, Wit Capital, which launched last week, is an online broker that lets small investors not only trade stocks and mutual funds at cut-rate prices but also buy into the high-end IPO and venture-capital deals that were once the sole province of Wall Street's biggest kahunas. Until now, the Little Guy could only watch and drool as well-connected initial subscribers bought millions of IPO shares at insider offering prices, then "flipped" them to the clamoring public for instant fortunes: Netscape...
...market whose stakes dwarf any product or service the Web has yet to offer. A recent report by Forrester Research puts the amount of assets invested online in 1997 at $120 billion and projects that by 2002 the number will rise to $688 billion. Already, cyberspace brokerages like E*TRADE and e.Schwab are filching millions of dollars in business from land-based icons like Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney by using the Web's data-processing efficiencies to cut pricing to the bone. E*TRADE charges a commission as low as $14.95 for a 100-share trade. e.Schwab's online...
...have this business to himself. The two online brokers, E*TRADE and e.Schwab, have each announced similar initiatives that are, unlike Wit, tied to specific underwriters. E*TRADE will offer IPOs managed by McCaffery's Robertson Stephens; e.Schwab will work with Hambrecht & Quist. E*TRADE's Cotsakos envisions the same tiny 100-share minimum as Wit, while e.Schwab's minimum, a snooty $100,000, writes off the Little Guys that Wit hopes to empower...