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Focusing on the 15 largest brokerage firms, Money magazine assessed   features such as price, ease of use, customer  service and system responsiveness. </b></font><p><font color="#000000"><b>SmartMoney focused on 21 brokerage firms for its annual discount broker survey, evaluating  them on features such as breadth of products, online trading, extra services and Web reliability. Said Money Magazine: "There's good reason  Charles Schwab is the biggest of the e-brokers. The San Francisco-based firm just makes things  easy for customers." </b></font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#000000">Š1998 Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. All rights reserved. <br>   Member SIPC/New York Stock Exchange, Inc. 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