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A leading UK online execution-only broker TD Waterhouse announced the launch of a special app for iPhone and iPod touch.

Customers can download the TD Trading App for free and use it to pace equity investment trades on 15 international markets in nine different currencies. When in their account users can instantly access their portfolio summaries, obtain live quotes and create a specific Watch List to monitor potential opportunities in real time.

It may seem to you that trading with InstaForex cannot be more comfortable and easier. It is not so, indeed. The specialists of the company demonstrated again, that working on the currency market with the InstaForex broker can, in fact, become even more convenient and effective. We know, that is exactly what our clients are waiting for, and are in continuous process of improving our services, upgrading technologies and other inner business procedures.

TD Ameritrade Holding plans to discuss the possibility to purchase its rival online brokerage company E*Trade Financial Corp, according to the Wall Street Journal, who cited sources with the knowledge of the matter.

The Journal notes that the probable talks would not necessarily involve the offer from TD Ameritrade for E*Trade.

E*Trade Financial's largest shareholder, Citadel LLC, last week pressed the online brokerage to consider a sale of its business.
 

Charles Schwab, a discount brokerage company, plans to launch a new service to allow customers to invest directly in foreign stock markets using local currencies.

Related services are already offered by other brokerages including E*Trade, Fidelity, TD Ameritrade and Zecco.

"The U.S. is becoming less important with the overall asset mix people are thinking about," says Schwab's Brian McDonald. Investors are "looking to grow global trading, and we want to make sure we're right there with them."

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, a joint venture between Morgan Stanley and Citigroup, unveiled that the personal data of 34,000 investment clients stored on two CDs was lost in transit to a government office last month, says the Wall Street Journal report.

The Journal says that the CDs were password protected but not encrypted. They went gone after the brokerage company mailed them to the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance.

On Wednesday the London Stock Exchange was rejected to purchase its Toronto counterpart for C$3.6 billion ($3.7 billion) which left the UK exchange open to takeover itself.

The LSE’s bid was overshadowed by the C$3.8 billion offer from the Maple Group consortium. The offering was strongly supported by the most influential Canadian banks who opposed the foreign intervention.

A largest online investment program ReProFinance announced its plans to expand in the following business year to make its service “more interesting and universal for our investors.”

First major plan is to introduce Visa Electron cards to allow investors withdraw their profits directly to their debit card and after that cash out at any ATM where Visa is accepted.

InstaForex Company has announced implementation of a completely new system One Click Trading which allows putting deals immediately by means of proprietary interface developed by the companys specialists.

Adoption of One Click Trading technology gives a trader an opportunity to see several essential trading instruments in front of him at the same time, so there is no need to switch between them for deals execution: opening of any deals is available in a second by dragging the mouse to the required instrument.

This investment game program known as Fxeconomy is nothing than a website created by a con artist. The admin claims that Fxeconomy Ltd was founded in 2005 by a group of foreign exchange dealers and business experts in forex trading as offshore investment company.

If you join this investment game program known as Asia-fs then your plan to make money online will fail and you will be scammed. The admin claims that Asia Financial Services is a long term high yield private loan program, backed up by forex market trading and investing in various funds and activities. Profits from these investments are used to enhance their program and increase its stability for the long term.

  If you think you can positively make money with this autosurf program known as positivesurf then you are wrong. This autosurf program has been running for one month and a half now and offers two types of plans which are 12% daily for 12 days and 12.5% daily for 12 days.  

Citadel is selling about 24 million shares in the US online brokerage company E*Trade Corp which sent E*Trade’s shares down 5.9%.

A Citadel investment Group affiliate launched an underwritten offering, set to close March 1, that would reduce the Chicago-based fund's stake to about 18 percent of E*Trade, from about 27 percent currently, according to a regulatory filing late on Wednesday.

Previously Citadel already reduced its 50% stake in E*Trade. Now the move sent shares of E*Trade Financial Corp (ETFC.O) down 98 cents to $15.67 -- its lowest level in a month.

Baidu, the largest search engine in China, may soon face an anti-trust investigation over allegations that it blocked and degraded search query results for a Chinese online encyclopedia website. The complaint was filed by a company that owns the Wikipedia-like site Hudong.com with China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC). The complaint requests SAIC to begin an anti-monopoly investigation against Baidu and to fine the search giant 790 million yuan (US$120 million).