Brokerage Madness, Pepsi’s Pop, and Wrestling Smackdowns
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🗓️ 4 October 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money. |
| 0:07.0 | From full global headquarters, this is Motley Full Money. |
| 0:16.0 | It's the Motley Full Money radio show. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio this week. |
| 0:22.0 | Senior analyst Jason Moser, Emily Flippin and Andy Cros. Good to see you as always. |
| 0:26.0 | Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. When you get up the latest headlines from Wall Street, |
| 0:29.0 | we will dip into the full mail bag and as always we'll give an inside look at the stocks on our radar. |
| 0:33.0 | But we begin with a big shake up in the brokerage industry. |
| 0:37.0 | This week Schwab announced it is cutting trading commissions for US stocks and ETFs to zero. |
| 0:44.0 | TD Ameritrade and E-trade followed suit later in the week and Andy worth pointing out all three stocks fell double digits. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, tough week for shareholders. Great week for clients though. |
| 0:55.0 | If you are an investor that uses one of those services, trading costs will dramatically lower. |
| 0:59.0 | Don't over trade. Don't use that as an excuse to over trade through Motley Full Principles. |
| 1:04.0 | But clearly impactful to some of these companies Schwab, only about three or four percent of their revenues are tied to commissions. |
| 1:12.0 | Chris, but when you look at E-trade and TD Ameritrade, much more significant, 17 to 25 percent of their revenues tied to commissions. |
| 1:22.0 | So much more impactful there and that's why the stocks really took a hit this year. |
| 1:26.0 | I think that we've been seeing this. We've been seeing commission costs over the last two decades. |
| 1:30.0 | I think my first stock that I bought the trading costs were somewhere like in the 50 to 60 bucks or something. |
| 1:36.0 | Ridiculous. Emily looks at me like, oh my god. |
| 1:38.0 | I take your image right. Any shoe. |
| 1:40.0 | I remember the $50 commission. |
| 1:42.0 | So you had to pay, call your broker all that. So clearly removing in the right direction, interactive brokers, |
| 1:48.0 | which was really driving the commission, cause so much lower. And last week announced that they were going even lower through their interactive broker light initiative. |
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