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Trading Volume Slows Performance
When stock markets everywhere took a big hit last Tuesday, volume on the New York Stock Exchange nearly doubled its typical level, topping 4 billion shares for the first time ever.
Barron's Online is a weekly magazine that covers U.S. financial information, tracks company statistics, and reports on market developments. Last week, Theresa W. Carey of Barron's decided that Tuesday's trading surge created "the perfect opportunity to see how some of the online brokers ... coped with extremely heavy traffic". The result was an interesting story -- Online Stress Test -- about the performance of leading brokerage sites during the trading peak. To sum up it up, the bigger the broker, the slower the site:
Chris Loosley
in Blogs and Publications, Performance in the News
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Are Online Retailers Ready for Business?
Every year, more and more shoppers turn to the Web for their holiday shopping, with total sales in 2006 projected to be in the multi-billion dollar range. But will online retailers be up to the task? Our recent study suggests that many will not.
by Ben Rushlo
Chris Loosley
in Business Perspectives, Performance in the News
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