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E-Trade Barely Edges Out Schwab for Most Favorite Broker from Survey of 95,000 Online Investors Who Forecast Stocks Business Editors LAKE FOREST, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 29, 1999--More than 95,000 registered users at Investors Forecast indicate their favorite brokers are Schwab and E-Trade with TD Waterhouse a distant third. E-Trade and Schwab were the favorites for 22% and 19%, respectively, of those surveyed since January of this year. TD Waterhouse is the favorite of 8% of those surveyed. The survey is done in conjunction with free registration at Investors Forecast; the leading Internet site for investor based forecasts of the stock market and price forecasts for 100 of the most active high profile stocks. Investors Forecast, located atinvestorsforecast.com , is pioneering the concept of collective price forecasting for stocks for next weeks market close, and has a patent pending on the real time process utilized. The rankings for most favorite broker are listed below: E-Trade 22% Schwab 19% TD Waterhouse 8% Datek 6% Ameritrade 5% DLJ 5% Fidelity 5% Others combined 7% None 23% About Investors Forecast: Investors Forecast at investorsforecast.com is the leading collective forecasting Web site which aggregates, calculates and displays real-time, user generated, number specific stock and market forecasts in graph form. Some of the one hundred stock prices forecast are: 3Com (Nasdaq:COMS) AT&T (NYSE:T) Amazon (Nasdaq:AMZN) America Online (NYSE:AOL ) Ameritrade (Nasdaq:AMTD) Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL) Beyond (Nasdaq:BYND) CMGI (Nasdaq:CMGI) CNET (Nasdaq:CNET) Cisco (Nasdaq:CSCO) Coke (NYSE:KO) Compaq (NYSE:CPQ) Citigroup (NYSE:C) Dell (Nasdaq:DELL) Disney (NYSE:DIS) E-TRADE (Nasdaq:EGRP) e-Bay (Nasdaq:EBAY) Ericsson (NYSE:Ericy) Excite@Home (Nasdaq:ATHM) FedEx (NYSE:FDX) Gateway (NYSE:GTW) GE (NYSE:GE) Go2Net Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HWP) Home Depot (NYSE:HD) IBM (NYSE:IBM) Infospace (Nasdaq:INSP) Inktomi (Nasdaq:INKT) Intel (Nasdaq:INTC) J. P. Morgan (NYSE:JPM) Lucent (NYSE:LU) MCI-Worldcom (Nasdaq:WCOM) Merrill Lynch (NYSE:MER) Merck (NYSE:MRK) Micron (NYSE:MU) Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) Mindspring (Nasdaq:MSPG) Motorola (NYSE:MOT) Nokia (NYSE:NOK) Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL) Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) Priceline (Nasdaq:PCLN) RealNetworks (Nasdaq:RNWK) Schwab (NYSE:SCH) Scientific Atlanta (NYSE:SFA) Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW) Tellabs (Nasdaq:TLAB) Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) Wal Mart (NYSE:WMT) Yahoo (Nasdaq:YHOO) Investors Forecast began collecting and publishing stock forecasts in December 1998. It is free and open to all online investors at investorsforecast.com .