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Your brokerage may provide real-time quotes as part of your service.

Late that year, the monthly professional fees were raised, the nonprofessional fee for delayed quotes was eliminated and the nonprofessional fee for each real-time quote was doubled, to a penny.

Because most on-line brokers absorb the cost of their customers' real-time quotes, the fee increase has raised sharply the on-line brokers' costs.

P15 NYSE test may give investors real-time quotes via the web.

Founded in the summer of 1997, FutureSource.com was an information and analysis provider for the metals markets, providing users with real-time quotes and news displays to charting, technical analysis and options analysis and simulation.

Information - especially the kind of information that fuels stock trading, like real-time quotes and company data - is on the verge of becoming ubiquitous.

Most of the free quotes are between 15 and 60 minutes old, however - real-time quotes generally cost money.

But, Mr. Britz said, Internet services that allow people access to real-time quotes require the user to have a personal computer and charge fees for providing this information.

The browser-based service-LiveCharts-provides streaming, real-time quotes from world markets, streaming charts, news, market depth and other tools to active traders.