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back home that is driving down profit margins , are being drawn to the lucrative potential of Europe, where the idea of a discount broker is still rather novel,' said Stephen Eckett, the author of Investing Online, a guide to Internet investments. Mr Eckett said that fees at full – service brokers in Britain for the purchase of $10,000 of stock in a British company would amount to about $120, while the going commission for making a similar trade on the World Wide Web could be as low as $9. Though European investors can already use US on-line brokers to buy shares in the United States, the American companies do not actively promote this business for fear of annoying European securities regulators. Thus, at the start, the American on-line brokers operating in Europe, like Schwab, are offering their customers the chance to trade only on individual European exchanges. The long-range goal , however, is to expand the system into a truly global marketplace where investors in any country will be able to trade freely in stocks across national boundaries. While European Internet usage still lags behind the United States, it is expected to grow rapidly in the next several years and Europe's single currency will foster the spread of stock trading across national boundaries. The American as on-line firms, despite their aggressive plans, will not have it easy. Barclays plc, one of the largest British banks, will be the first to fight off the competition when it launches its own on-line service in. September, complete with financial information and real-time share trading service. 71 Philip Bungey, Head of Research and Development at Barclays Stockbrokers, said Barclays would let customers trade in about 2,000 companies on the London Stock Exchange and the Alternative Investment Market, a small-companies market. In the future, he said, Barclays wants to enable its customers to trade electronically on American exchanges, like NASDAQ. Increasingly, American on-line brokers will be squeezed by the very revolution they have helped start. Mr. Eckett predicts a ‘major collapse’ of commission fees. He noted that in the United States, commissions for Internet trades have dipped as low as $5 a transaction since Web trading surfaced about four years ago. 'The same will happen in Europe,' he said, 'as consumers surf the Internet in search of cheaper financial services.' New York Times: - NASDAQ: A US electronic stock exchange - hooked: addicted; - to squeeze: to make it difficult for somebody to do business; - to faster: to help something develop; - novel: new, unusual and interesting; - to accelerate: to make something happening. 3.2.3 Ответьте на вопросы: 1) Why are more people taking an interest in the stock exchange? 2) What will make European markets change more quickly? 3) Why do American on-line traders operating in Europe restrict their dealings European exchanges? 4) How are the European traders reacting to American competition? 5) What will the long-term effect on American brokers be? 3.2.4 Найдите соответствия: 1) to log on a) profitable 2) a boom b) a dramatic reduction 3) to surf c) an authority that supervises an industry 4) a move d) to reach a total of 5) to catch up e) to connect 72 6) lucrative f) money that a customer pays for a service, usually a percentage of the total 7) to amount to g) a tactical change of position 8) a commission h) to move between different websites on the Internet 9) a regulator i) a rapid expansion or development 10) a collapse j) to reach the person in front 3.2.5 Расположите предложения в той последовательности, в которой они даны в тексте: 1) The long-range goal, however, is to expand the system into a truly global marketplace where investors in any country will be able to trade freely in stocks across national boundaries. 2) There is a stock market boom at the moment, and as Web surfing gains popularity across Europe, more and more people are logging on to shop for financial products, and buying and selling stocks. 3) Increasingly, American on-line brokers will be squeezed by the very revolution they have helped start. 4) The American as on-line firms, despite their aggressive plans, will not have it easy. 5) The American on-line brokers operating in Europe, like Schwab, are offering their customers the chance to trade only on individual European exchanges. 3.2.6 Подготовьте аннотацию текста, используя выражения: «The subject of the text is…»; «The text deals with …»; «The main idea of the text is …. ». 3.2.7 Подготовьте презентацию об инвестиционных компаниях. жүктеу/скачать 0,94 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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