E-Trade rolls out foreign stock trading services
E-Trade Financial unveiled a global trading platform that makes it the first major US discount brokerage to give customers the ability to trade foreign-listed stocks online, an Associated Press report said.
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Why isn't my stock trading at a per-share price equal to its buyout price?
A cash buyout agreement has been announced for a stock I own, but why isn't my stock trading at a per-share price equal to the buyout price?
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A yen for risk
Day trading becomes booming business Fujisawa, Japan · When Takao Uchida's plan to launch his own business fell through three years ago, he knew right away how to use his 2.5 million yen, or $21,550, in savings. He withdrew it from his nearly zero-interest bank account and bought stocks.
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more...London Stock Exchange Falls Short in Plan to Grab Dutch Trading
U.K. May 19 (Bloomberg) -- London Stock Exchange Plc must do ``a lot more'' to meet its own expectations of capturing as much as 30 percent of the market for Dutch stock trading, after only securing an average of less than 2 percent since it started the initiative.
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