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To: Spytrdr who wrote (8280)	9/1/1999 4:35:00 AM
From: IFLY_Trader	Respond to of 13953

biz.yahoo.com Wednesday September 1, 3:21 am Eastern Time (Note: this article is ''in progress''; there will likely be an update soon.) *ETrade Japan targets 100,000 accounts in 1st year** TOKYO, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Softbank Corp said on Wednesday that online brokerage unit ETrade Securities Co will aim for 100,000 trading accounts in its initial year. ETrade, which will begin operating on October 1, already has about 30,000 brokerage accounts, said Softbank Executive Vice President Yoshitaka Kitao. Kitao also said Softbank plans to shortly set up a brokerage called Softbank Frontier Securities, which will deal in shares of unlisted companies.

To: Spytrdr who wrote (8280)	9/1/1999 6:52:00 PM
From: Spytrdr	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13953

Online assets seen at $3 trillion in 2003 NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Assets in online brokerage accounts are forecasted to swell to $3 trillion in 2003, up from $415 billion in 1998, according to a bullish report from Jupiter Communications. Some 41 percent of U.S. households with stock investors are expected to directly or indirectly have online trading accounts in 5 years and 30 percent are estimated to manage their bank accounts online, the consultant says in a report released Wednesday. cbs.marketwatch.com