Ameritrade Holding News

Deep-discount broker Scottrade is stepping up the marketing of its products and custody services to registered investment advisers.

The discount brokerage firm, Charles Schwab , has entered the ETF game. While Schawb's new ETFs have turned heads with their novel premise of commission-free trading, the firm's first move into ETFs has already generated some controversy.

E*Trade is looking increasingly likely to have to extend its search for a new CEO into 2010 to replace Don Layton, who is currently planning to resign at the end of the year.

The Charles Schwab Corp.'s effort to drum up business in its newly launched stable of exchange-traded funds by waiving commissions for its clients continues to draw intense interest from its competitors and advisers.

This morning, Goldman Sachs downgraded shares of TD Ameritrade from Buy to Neutral as the firm is concerned about future earnings potential.

Click Here Now Goldman Sachs has had it with the discounters. The investment banker is downgrading its outlook on the discount-brokerage industry, on fears that margins and fee revenue will come under pressure in a low-interest-rate environment.

TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. , the third-largest brokerage for individual investors by assets, sees a slowdown in equity trading next year as share prices swing less than in 2009, Chief Executive Officer Fred Tomczyk said.

Discount brokers lost a vote of confidence from equity analysts at Goldman Sachs Group on Monday.

A new survey suggests that more Americans are going to make saving and investing for retirement priorities in 2010.

Two admirable goals, but, quite frankly, two rather lofty goals for most of us. But those are the firm conclusions from a new survey from the financial-services firm TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.

During the course of the holiday-shortened session, the security saw roughly 4,200 puts change hands - about five times the stock's average daily put volume, and more than 19 times the number of AMTD calls traded.

A sooner than usual decline in U.S. equity trading volumes is likely to impact fourth-quarter numbers for online brokers such as E*Trade Financial and TD Ameritrade , as well as the performance of specialty firms and exchanges.

TD Ameritrade's new debt offering drew a strong response from institutional investors on Friday.

By Mary Pilon It's a resolution time. And Americans once again want to get wealthier and healthier.

Short-term Treasury prices rallied again on Friday, sending yields on 2-year notes to the lowest levels this year, as investors stepped away from riskier assets to lock in profits with an eye already turned toward the end of 2009.

It plans to use the proceeds to retire debt and stagger the maturity of its long-term bonds.

Online retail brokerage TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. said Friday that it will sell $1.25 billion in senior unsecured notes in a public offering and use proceeds to retire debt and stagger the maturity of its long-term bonds.

TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation announced today that it has agreed to sell the following in an underwritten public offering: $250 million, 2.950% senior unsecured notes due 2012 $500 million, 4.150% senior unsecured notes due 2014 $500 million, 5.600% senior unsecured notes due 2019 "As a result of our credit rating upgrades to investment grade, ...

Shares of online broker E-Trade Financial Corp. were up more than 4% at the start of Friday's session, amidst heavy talk of a possible takeover bid by TD Ameritrade Holdings Corp.

E*Trade Financial shares finished at their session low Thursday on heavy volume, pulling back in the wake of persistent speculation about the potential for a merger with fellow online broker TD Ameritrade .