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ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB97734318478510977\nAmeritrade Takes a Great Leap Forward\nTheresa W. Carey\nUpdated Dec. 21, 2000 5:42 pm ET / Original July 19, 2019 3:44 am ET\nT hanks to rock-bottom commissions and an advertising barrage, Ameritrade has become one of the biggest online brokers, with a 10.3% market share, according to Piper Jaffray.\nBut its actual service has been undistinguished and often plagued by problems. That's why it has never ranked among the elite in Barron's annual rankings of online brokers (see \"Better, Not Just Bigger ,\" March 13, 2000).\nPerhaps responding to demands by customers and the media that it plow some of the hundreds of millions of dollars it normally spends on marketing into fixing its site, Ameritrade.com has made a major investment in technology.\nIt seems to have paid off nicely. Although we received quite a few complaints about Ameritrade's customer service earlier this year, that number has dropped recently, as performance has clearly gotten better.\nIn fact, Keynote Systems, which measures performance for many websites, shows Ameritrade knocking several seconds off its average access time since early this year.\nOne obvious improvement is the site's speedy access and page loading. Even while using a dial-up connection on a busy trading day, we got into the site quickly and were able to click easily from one spot to another.\nNavigation is better, too. When viewing your position report, you can click on a link to either add to your holdings or sell them off. A trading screen appears, with the appropriate ticker symbols and number of shares, which you can edit before sending the trade off to the exchanges.\nYou also can get a real-time quote before you fill out your order form by using the Snap Quote feature, which is located at the bottom of each screen in the site. (One item that's still missing is a calculation of the total cost of the trade, which would be very helpful for stock and options orders.)\nwww.ameritrade.com\nTrade Execution 4.5\nEase of Use 4\nReliability/Range of Services 4\nWeighted Total 19.625\nRating *** 1/2\nAmeritrade also has spiffed up its reports, and has quietly added the useful ability to access over a year's worth of trade confirmations. Research amenities include the usual suspects -- Market Guide, Zacks and newswires -- but for these commissions, you shouldn't expect proprietary research. Epoch Partners supplies Ameritrade customers with information about technology investments.\nThe main reason Ameritrade gets so much attention is its $8.00 commission for market orders ($13 for limit orders). It also has cut fees for options trading to $8 plus $1.75 per contract -- on the low end of the range there, too.\nAmeritrade automates complex strategies (such as spreads and straddles) for options trading on its Advanced trading screen. Margin borrowing rates (at 10.25%) are on the high side for balances of $25,000 or less. But once you hit balances of $50,000 and over, Ameritrade's charges drop to 8.75%, in the bottom quartile.\nAll in all, the changes represent a big improvement. We now rate Ameritrade ***1/2, much higher than the **1/2 it got in our March rankings.\nWhat can be traded online?\nStocks Long, short\nMutual Funds Yes (9,000 available)\nOptions Yes ($8 + $1.75/contract, add $5 for limit)\nBonds Live broker only (Minimum $40/trade)\nMarket $8\nLimit $13\nCost of 3 Round Trips (500 shares) $63\nTouch tone trading: Add $4/trade\nLive broker: Add $10/trade\nWireless trading: Available.\nHigh Account Balance Benefits : \"Premier\" status offered to some high account balance holders. Toll-free customer support line, dedicated broker.\nOnline Amenities : Unlimited real-time quotes, Market Guide, Epoch Partners (tech industry coverage), Morningstar, Zacks, OnMoney.com (account consolidator), NetScreen stock screener, news wires.\nPros : Fast-loading, easy to read and navigate site.\nCons : No proprietary research, limited portfolio analysis.\nTheresa W. Carey is a Barron's contributing editor who reviews online brokers for Website of the Week.\nT hanks to rock-bottom commissions and an advertising barrage, Ameritrade has become one of the biggest online brokers, with a 10."

ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.barrons.com/articles/u-s-tariffs-europe-wynn-crown-deal-dow-stocks-51554811829\nMorning Movers\nU.S. to Hit Europe With Tariffs, Wynn Seeks a Deal, and More to Know About Stocks for Tuesday\nAl Root\nApril 9, 2019 8:14 am ET\nMichael George Haddad\nThe Week Ahead: U.S. stock markets rose modestly Monday, although the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended in the red. Boeing (ticker: BA), a big Dow component, fell because its shares were downgraded by a top analyst. U.S. stock futures were down this morning—but only a little. Stock markets remain relatively calm ahead of first-quarter earnings reports.\nDow futures were near the break-even line, while futures on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite were down about 0.1%.\nIn today’s Morning Movers, we (1) check in with Wall Street analysts, (2) examine M&A and (3) offer an update on trade.\nBarron’s Briefs\nUpgrades and Downgrades: The popular Walt Disney Company (DIS) caught an upgrade to Outperform from Cowen. Kids like Disney, but so does Wall Street.\nTwo-thirds of analysts covering Disney rate that shares at Buy. That is more than 10 percentage points better than the average Buy-rating ratio for stocks in the Dow. On the flip side, Lennox International (LII) was downgraded to Market Perform at Cowen and United States Steel (X) was downgraded to Underperform at Credit Suisse with a $13 price target, 34% below where the stock closed Monday. Credit Suisse may be worried that steel pricing is headed lower.\nIn the case of Lennox, the downgrade looks valuation-based. The stock is up 56% from its 52-week low and trades for more than 22 times estimated 2019 earnings. That premium valuation multiple is due, in part, to the chance United Technologies (UTX) will merge its Carrier division with another maker of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning equipment before United Technologies breaks itself into three parts.\nMerger Tuesday: It’s usually merger Monday, but this morning, Wynn Resorts (WYNN) said it is seeking to purchase Australia’s Crown Resorts (CWN.Australia) for $7 billion. Chief executive officers and corporate board rooms aren’t feeling any compunction about spending money in this economy. In the U.S., more than $400 billion in deals have been agreed to so far in 2019, which is way up compared with this time last year. Megadeals like those between Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) and Celgene (CELG), as well as Fidelity National Information Service (FIS) and Worldpay (WP), help boost the total amount.\nNot This Again: Nafta was renegotiated and a Sino-American trade pact is almost complete. Now the U.S. has turned its attention to Europe and will impose $11 billion in tariffs because of government subsidies to Boeing competitor Airbus (AIR.France).\nThis trade spat isn’t exactly like the others. Boeing and Airbus have been fighting over finance subsidies for more than a decade with each side arguing the other receives government funds to guarantee loans used to purchase planes. The bigger risk for markets is that tariffs expand to other European products, such as cars, after U.S. trade officials finish a deal with China.\nNumbers By Barron’s is a two-minute financial podcast with three vital numbers to start your morning. Available on iTunes, Apple Podcast, Stitcher, and wherever you get your podcasts—as well as on your Amazon Alexa smart speaker\nThe Week Ahead: U."