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Bloomberg  Nov 20  Comment 
(Update1) Jerome Kenney spent three decades at Merrill Lynch & Co., where he helped transform a retail brokerage into an investment bank and became vice chairman before it went out of business last year. But he’ll always have Yale University...
Bloomberg  Nov 20  Comment 
(Update2) The U.S. is responsible for the crisis in the Middle East and shouldn’t be coordinating peace talks for the region, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said.
Market Intelligence Center  Nov 20  Comment 
AK Steel (AKS) was upgraded today by analysts at EVA Dimensions, LL and the stock is now at $18.25, down $0.08 (-0.44%) on volume of 3,448,343 shares traded. EVA Dimensions, LL upgraded the stock to Overweight from Hold. Over the last 52 weeks the...
Market Intelligence Center  Nov 20  Comment 
Financial Times  Nov 20  Comment 
Concerns over growing loan losses plagued banks this week as institutions with exposure to Europe's developing economies were told they may have been too slow in recognising possible losses
New York Times  Nov 20  Comment 
Fidelity Investments has launched a service to help retail brokers determine how profitable it would be for them to leave their brokerage house and hang out their own shingle.
MarketWatch  Nov 20  Comment 
Tui Travel was downgraded to equalweight from overweight at Morgan Stanley while Thomas Cook was downgraded to underweight from equalweight at Morgan Stanley. The broker said that it cut forecasts for the firms to reflect a weaker operating...
MarketWatch  Nov 20  Comment 
Cable & Wireless was upgraded to overweight from neutral at J.P. Morgan on Friday. The broker said that Cable & Wireless has underperformed the sector by 19% and the FTSE by 25% year-to-date despite heavy emerging markets exposure. "This reflects...
guardian.co.uk  Nov 20  Comment 
Blue-blooded City broker Cazenove bought by US bank in £1bn deal
Marketwire  Nov 20  Comment 
SEATTLE, WA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/20/09 -- Advertising buyer commission rebates is central to the discount real estate brokerage's message, but properly accounting for them falls into a gray area. Most conventional mortgage lenders say they
Reuters  Nov 19  Comment 
Wall Street firms have started to hire again and they can cherry-pick talent from their competitors -- who may be worried about their own security -- or from the legions of professionals who found themselves out
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A broker is an individual or firm that charges a fee or commission for executing buy and sell orders submitted by a customer.

Up until the 90's, most buy and sell orders were executed by calling a broker on the phone who would then execute your order anywhere between $70 and $200 a trade. With the advent of the Internet, a whole new discount broker industry formed which now allows investors to trade at a much lower cost.

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