Gary Poster, with essential assists from Galyn Norwood, Phiroon Phihakendr, Jose Quijada, Pavandeep Kalra. A report released this week by Jupiter Communications takes online brokers to task for failing to meet minimum customer service standards. The low figure is unacceptable, said Robert Sterling, an analyst at Jupiter. Key players are going to have to think more like retailers and invest in the infrastructure to help support a more mainstream customer base. I remember one where a some wiseguy was selling his girlfriend, and another winner offered up his virginity.
Factories normally show down in the summer.
So when you put the two numbers together what you really have is job losses in manufacturing now, on average, of about 9,500, which to me is encouraging because it says that the rate of decline in manufacturing is actually slowing. The only sector to really do poorly today was housewares, of all things. The firm, based in the scenic northwestern Illinois town of Freeport today lowered its own third-quarter estimates. Rumor had it that the two media giants were talking about inking some sort of deal. Still, many discounted the possibility that two cranky primadonnas like CBS' Mel Karmazin and Viacom's Sumner Redstone could ever actually work together.