Short Takes: Wachovia Brokerage Offers All-Day Trading

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.

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