When was the last time you looked at a financial product (and no, you can’t include CDS or RMBS in this question) and were wowed. It’s been awhile for me (I don’t get out much).
Well, it got me thinking. Earlier this week I went into a restroom and was surprised to find — [...]
Rupert Murdoch on Fox News post D8 presentation. He’s pushing the Wall Street Journal as a mainstream paper/product and is pretty blunt about turning off non-payers of premium content.
He also claims that he expects similar subscription numbers that the WSJ.com enjoys on the iPad (1MM+).
Check out the video below.
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eBay of investment advisors, kaChing announced today that they’re providing servicing of IRA plans. That means that someone with an IRA of at least $10k and the desire to have kaChing investment managers take a crack at managing his portfolio, can now do it.
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Interesting little announcement from StockTwits this morning. The distance between financial content and trade execution narrows as Stock Twits embeds broker Zecco’s Zap Trade into their site.
From the announcement:
Zap Trade is a little “widget” that appears wherever you see a ticker symbol on StockTwits. Clicking the Z launches a pop-up trade ticket [...]
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It’s always a good idea to check out what’s being advertised to see what the financial product firms are pushing. Some of this is horse-leading-the-cart stuff, but sometimes financial products are developed based on demand for such things. Looking at advertising in the financial industry is a momentum-driven way to look at trends [...]
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From the Yahoo Finance blog today:
Today the Yahoo! Finance team rolled out new Yahoo! Finance sites in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Singapore. Already in 20+ countries around the world, this is the first wave of a global Yahoo! Finance platform that is rolling out across the globe. This global platform [...]
TD Ameritrade CEO on Forbes. Won’t say yes to E*Trade but won’t say no, either.
Worth checking out a very interesting report from Bob Veres, financial industry analyst, entitled “Future of the Profession.”
At over 100 pages, it’s a really in-depth look at the confluence of trends affecting the industry (brokers, financial planners and RIAs) and a critical look at where Veres thinks the market, business, and profession are headed.
The advisory [...]
