It doesn't surprise me that the guy you talked with at Reuters was clueless. What kind of research were you expecting to get from Reuters? I did notice that ETrade is offering free premium Morningstar for accounts with more than $20k. I would think that Morningstar's research is better than Reuters.

I talked w/ the guy at Etrade, not at reuters. The Reuters research I was referring to was themarkets.com (or perhaps they have something similar, a stripped down version for non-institutional clients?). Themarkets.com basically aggregates research from sell-side shops. From past experience Morninstar doesn't cut it. I've never seen a "Reuters"-branded piece, which is why I ask.

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I've been with scottrade online stock trading for the last few years i started with etrade almost when they started really promoting the site but not to happy with the prices. I'm not using a broker for the whole reason to save per trade and have more information available.