1.   Already, some online brokerage firms, hard hit by the collapse of the Nasdaq, are raising commissions and charging new fees, Smith said.

2.   Also looking at the outlook for other online brokerage firms.

3.   And Fidelity Investments began offering its own version of folios through its online brokerage operation this summer..

4.   And that is bad news for online brokerage houses, which have seen trading volumes ebb recently.

5.   And so the online brokerage industry is stepping up its efforts.

6.   Another way would be to create its own online brokerage offering.

7.   As a result, many online brokerage firms have argued that they cannot possibly monitor the suitability of the investments their clients are choosing in cyberspace.

8.   Appropriately enough, many of them trade on the Internet itself, through online brokerage sites.

9.   As anonymous assaults on major Web sites continued Wednesday, computer vandals crippled a large online brokerage operation and a media site.

10.   As such, Goldman is not likely to try to exploit the link with Wit for entree into the online stock brokerage business, these people said.