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Ameritrade bids $2.9 billion for TD Waterhouse
Stock Option Trading Online brokerage, Ameritrade, is buying Toronto-Dominion Bank's TD Waterhouse in deal valued at $2.9 billion that will create the biggest online broker in the World.If you would like to receive late breaking business news covered by AXcess News then you need to subscribe. Membership is free.
Although online brokerage has lost some of its cachet, firms have built a solid franchise. Trade Group Inc. (www.etrade.com) had its seventh straight quarter of operating profits in the first quarter, generating $19.4 million in earnings before a charge related to a change in accounting rules. Ameritrade Holding Corp. (www.ameritrade.com) had net income of $11 million in its fiscal first half, ended March 29.
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Financial Software Trading June 22, 2005 (AXcess News) Toronto - Online brokerage, Ameritrade, is buying Toronto-Dominion Bank's TD Waterhouse in deal valued at $2.9 billion that will create the biggest online broker in the World.Ameritrade said the combined companies would create significant value in cost savings, though layoffs were not mentioned.
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Online Stock Trading Company Toronto-Dominion will retain 32% of the merged online brokerage firms once the deal is closed. The new company is going to be called TD Ameritrade and will carry a combined customer account base of over 5.9 million users who trade online. Ameritrade said the combined businesses will execute 239,000 trades daily.The deal comes at time online brokerages are still recovering from the dotcom bust when 30% of all trades on the NASDAQ and NYSE came from online firms. Now, that number is down to 10%.
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