Tag: US online brokers

February 03, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

US online retail broker shares hit by commission war

Shares of leading publicly traded US online retail brokers traded down between 2-10% yesterday, including those of Charles Schwab Corp (NYSE:SCHW), E*TRADE Financial Corp (NASDAQ:ETFC), Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR, )and TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. (NYSE: AMTD). Thursday's trading results included: Schwab: -5.3% E*Trade: -8.9%  TD Ameritrade: -9.5% Interactive Brokers: -1.9% The cause? Well it looks…

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January 07, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

TradeKing online share order system goes down briefly on Thursday - LeapRate Exclusive

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that clients of discount US online stockbroker TradeKing were unable to execute buy and sell orders via the company's website for a while on Thursday morning. A company representative confirmed to LeapRate that TradeKing's website was not communicating properly with the company's order routing system for a few minutes after…

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