We recently encountered three stocks that right now don't have a single "buy" endorsement from the brokerage bunch, namely investment firm Franklin Resources, self-storage specialist Public Storage, and utility concern Consolidated Edison.
According to research by Redfin, a real estate brokerage, the average single female homeowner, as it turns out, isn't even close to 20.
But Mr. Waxman said, "There were a lot of small firms" like his, including single-person law practices and brokerage offices.
Wikinvest, launched in June of 2010, tracks stock performance data from more than 65 brokerages within a single dashboard, analogous to consumer finance site Mint, and also contains news, graphs and other features.
It could also signal another step toward a widely discussed plan to combine Citi's consumer operations and its Smith Barney brokerage firm under a single leader.
"The type of information leakage (or piggybacking) present in the Martha Stewart case may actually be more generally present in the brokerage business than that single case may imply," the paper states.
The same was true for Cassie Peterson, a 40-year-old single mom who used Redfin's brokerage services to buy her Chicago home in April.
In reverse redlining, a mortgage brokerage or bank systematically singles out minority neighborhoods for loans with inferior terms like high up-front fees, high interest rates and lax underwriting practices.
Alan Davidson, president of the Independent Broker-Dealer Associntion in Smithtown, N.Y., and an N.A.S.D. board member, is concerned about the creation of a single regulator to oversee the nation's brokerage firms.
