...YORK -- It started gradually with globalization and online trading. Then came the Sept. 11 attacks and the pace quickened...backup systems across the Hudson River to New Jersey. Online trading and better communications means fewer brokers are...

NEW YORK -- AT&T Corp. wants to track its wireless business. Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette tracks its online trading division. DuPont is tracking biotechnology. Tracking stocks gained new attention on Wall Street this past week after AT&T announced...

...educational seminars which introduce customers to online trading. Fidelity Online Brokerage tells customers that wireless...traditional brokerages no longer have an advantage over online trading," said Greg Smith, an analyst with J.P. Morgan...

...accounting practices to product design to new marketing programs -- and encourage employees to do the same. At the online-trading company Ameritrade Inc., CEO Joe Moglia says constant dialogue throughout the organization helps ensures honesty...

...the 1990s, the industry relied only on a survey of music retailers to gauge fan interest. The emergence of free online trading, beginning in the late 1990s with MP3.com and the original Napster, suddenly made it technologically feasible...

...Research, said the system will fill a missing link in online trading: cheap, reliable financial advice. ''Advice from...he said. ''It's an element missing from online trading now.'' Will people spend money on these reports...

...Some fund managers stuck to their guns, but a lot caved,'' Petersen said. All of this, along with the surge in online trading and research, will increase the pressure on mutual funds for more transparency, said Andrew Guillette, a consultant...