Brokerage
E-Trade Customer Appreciation Day and ……
So now E-Trade Financial seems out of the immediate danger of going out of business, they want to show their appreciation to those customers who chose to stay with them after the firm revealed big losses from subprime mortgage loans and saw their stock sink more than 50% in one day. An email from E-Trade [...]
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Switching from Firstrade to Tradeking
As 2007 comes to an conclusion, I make another change of my investment accounts over the weekend when I opened a TradeKing account, which will replace Firstrade as my main stock broker for stocks that pay dividend.
I got the Firstrade account in early 2006, mainly for its free dividend reinvestment feature, one that my primary [...]
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ShareBuilder Acquired by ING Direct
An email from ShareBuilder reached my mailbox tonight with some “exciting” announcement: ShareBuilder has been acquired by ING Direct on November 15, 2007. Along with the announcemen, ShareBuilder also told its customers what change they can expect after the transaction: none.
Rest assured there have been no changes made to your ShareBuilder account. All of the [...]
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Reassurance from E-Trade
As E-Trade’s stock bounced back to $5+ level, it seems the bankruptcy rumor has calmed down a little bit. Actually, instead of going out of business, E-Trade may become a take-over target (that speculation played a big role in driving up the stock price).
Anyway, today I received an email from E-Trade regarding my account with [...]
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Is My Money Safe if E-Trade Fails?
Another big story yesterday (the other one I thought was the 170+ points reversal of the Dow, extending the index’s losing streak to 4 and closing below 13,000 the first time since late August) was the nearly 60% drop of E-Trade Financial shares. Following a Citigroup analyst downgrade of the stock to Sell over the [...]
Popularity: 30% [?]
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