Wachovia Corp. is now offering 24-hour trading through BrokerLink, its automated telephone brokerage service.
To promote the service, the Winston-Salem, N.C., banking company is offering investors who make stock and option trades through BrokerLink a 10% discount on commissions.
Also this summer, customers will be enabled to make Internet trades on the bank's Web site at www.wachovia.com. This service is to offer a 20% discount on commissions.
Wachovia, a $48.5 billion-asset company, said it changed the name of its brokerage unit to Wachovia Investments Direct from Wachovia Brokerage Services.