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Strategies & Market Trends : LastShadow's Position Trading -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LastShadow who wrote (16260)	6/28/1999 8:58:00 AM
From: LastShadow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 43080

PC Usage and Internet Usage is not rising rapidly as PCs and the internet penetrate the rest of the population. A recent survey done by Arbitron New Media, as reported in the June 21 Wall Street Journal, showed that while 59% of all US homes now have PCs, the percentage of adults using the machines fell from 90% to 53%. The numbers are especially interesting because they exclude usage by children. This means that while the new PCs being purchased is going up, the new users aren't really using them for much. The study also showed that the new PC owners do sign up for internet services, bringing the total US internet population to 38% of the nation's population. But only 2/3 of those signed up for internet services actually use them regularly or had made an online purchase. This survey, the full results of which have still not yet been released, may indicate that the current incarnation of the internet is simply too hard to use to capture the rest of the mass market yet. Charles Schwab average daily trades going down: On June 14, Schwab (SCH) reported a slowdown of (28%) in total overall daily trades in the month of May. This is in spite of a continued growth of accounts. While it means that more people are online, they are, as a group, doing less. This confirms the trend shown by the Arbitron survey.