More Accounts at Ameritrade

Ameritrade Holding Corp. said Friday that its core online brokerage account base grew last month by 24,000.

The Omaha discount brokerage company, which has 3 million accounts, also said that its average daily trading volume in July was 161,000.

Ameritrade's profits have improved as retail investors have returned to the equity markets. On July 22, it reported that its earnings for its fiscal third quarter, which ended June 30, jumped sevenfold from its total for all of last year, to a record $49.9 million.

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