In trying to look for clear & concise explanation of "Y" and "F" shares, I found this:
"If the ticker ends with the letter "Y", this means that it is not an F share, but a Y share."
OK, cannot argue with that at all (-:). But seriously, from the same link (from a legal outfit),
"Y shares designate American Depositary Receipts (ADR) that are being traded in the US market. Banks or other depositary institutions will hold foreign shares and issue receipts for them. This is called an ADR. The ADR will be denominated in a ratio of one ADR to X-number of foreign shares."
"While (F share) trades are executed in US dollars by US broker-dealers, the shares are settled, cleared and custodised in your local market.
An F share is created in the US when a broker-dealer files a Form 211 with FINRA (the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) to create a US ticker symbol in order to report trades in the US in your company’s shares. This is not a new share. It is a reference to your existing shares via a newly created ticker symbol in the United States for reporting and trading purposes."
My story: from YEARS ago, I had a Canadian "F" share fund. Commission/fee was high - I don't remember if it was $50, but was much higher than $6.95. It had almost 3-day turnaround for trade confirmations (not for settlement!). When I complained, I was told that those don't really trade in the US. Some US aggregator/dealer trades them in Canada when he felt like it, and my broker could confirm only when he reported back. From that time on, I have avoided tickers ending in "F". Tickers ending in "Y" do trade within the US.
https://www.carstedrosenberg.com/post/what-are-f-shares

Why should we always have to settle? Why shouldn't systems work FOR us?

While this model was created to describe goods, it also applies to services.
You want good service? You'll either pay more for it (not cheap), or you'll have to wait for it (slow service, understaffed).
You want fast service? You'll either pay more for it (sufficient, well-trained staff) or get lower quality/limited service.
You want cheap service? You'll have to give up quality (lower paid, less trained providers) or speed (understaffed).
It's just economics. Some places do better than others (e.g. economies of scale, better training methods, more productive technology, etc.), but they are all subject to the same tradeoffs.

I have a question or two for them, also, about THAT: foreign stocks incur a FEE? Even if they trade on US exchanges???? "Foreign stocks." That's what the footnote says.

I just posted a fair amount of info on foreign stock trading (in response to Yogi's similar comment about $50 fees) on another thread. Here's the post.
Short answer: Listed stocks (i.e. stocks trading on a US exchange) are charged the same regardless of whether they are domestic or foreign stocks. At Schwab, that's $0.
From Schwab pricing (online price column):
Listed Stocks and ETFs ¹    $0 online commission
Foreign stock transactions placed on the U.S. over-the-counter (OTC) market⁹    $50 foreign transaction fee
¹ Standard online $0 commission does not apply to over-the-counter (OTC) equities, transaction-fee mutual funds, futures, fixed-income investments, or trades placed directly on a foreign exchange or in the Canadian market.
⁹ Transactions in foreign ordinary shares incur additional custody, clearing, and settlement expenses. A foreign transaction fee is added to trades placed on the US over-the-counter market through the online or automated phone channels. The commission and foreign transaction fee will be combined and will appear as one line item, labeled "Commission," on the trade confirmation.

I don't think that T Rowe Price offers genuine fractional trading for stocks/ETFs (that one can enter as orders; Fido & Schwab allow that, but a different order screen may be needed). But there are fractional shares for mutual funds and dividend reinvestments, and sell-all should work. Price clears through Pershing/BNY-Mellon, so restrictions are coming from that.

TRP is still a far sight better than Merrill Edge when it comes to fractions. At Merrill, you can't enter fractions of shares, even of mutual funds, into its online form. And if you check the box "sell all", it sells only the whole shares that day. The remaining fraction gets sold somewhere around the third week of the month (likely batched together with all other account fractions), even for money market funds.

Almost all brokers charge fees of $50 or so for stocks that trade on foreign exchanges, and Canada is considered foreign. This is why use ADRs with tickers ending in "Y" that trade in the US, not those ending in "F" that trade on foreign exchanges.

The tickers ending in F are used when trading foreign stocks domestically, OTC. These trades typically incur a $50 commission as stated. (Schwab charges $6.95 for Canadian stocks.) Some foreign stocks or ETFs may be listed on a domestic exchange and trade commission-free like domestic stocks. One can also trade foreign stocks on foreign exchanges, without the OTC'ized ticker.
Schwab page on different ways of investing in foreign companies
Forbes: OTC vs listed stocks (not specific to foreign stocks)
When trading directly on a foreign exchange each broker has different fees. At Schwab, a commission is the greater of $100 or 0.75% of the amount traded (see link above). That's prohibitive if one can trade the same stock OTC.  At Fidelity, the fees are more modest (you can trade online), though there are additional costs: currency exchange fees and taxes/fees originating from the foreign country/exchange.
Fidelity suggests holding foreign currency if one is going to make several trades on a given foreign exchange. That way one avoids multiple currency exchange fees (Fidelity charges up to 1%). Fidelity's list of fees - commissions, currency exchanges, and foreign taxes/fees is here:
https://www.fidelity.com/stock-trading/faqs-international
(expand the question: What are the international stock commissions and fees?)

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Every single one of my mutual funds/ETFs was down today.
Declines ranged from -0.21% for STIP to -3.55% for VTMSX.

FCNVX, my favorite bond fund of the past year, dropped only 0.1%. USFR actually rose 0.03%, to be expected since it’s a floating rate fund.
Although not a fund, General Electric, was up 1.14% on the day. Don’t ask me about its 5, 10 and 20 year returns.

"...There really is no reason for me to go there."
Very often, I'm downtown, and just a block away from Schwab's office. It would be very handy to walk in and get stuff done. Anytime. About stuff that might not even come to mind at this moment. (Isn't that why offices are THERE??? Not anymore, obviously. ORK!) Yes, I would do my trading online, with zero fees. I have a question or two for them, also, about THAT: foreign stocks incur a FEE? Even if they trade on US exchanges???? "Foreign stocks." That's what the footnote says.

The closest office for me is 25 or so miles away. I can do anything I want with my account online at home, in my underwear if I wish, in a few minutes. Even if the office was 5 minutes away, I would still never go there.
For what reason?
I started online banking/bill paying with my local bank in 2004. Then I started doing mobile check deposits several years ago with them. I drive by it nearly every day, but only go in rarely as there is no need to.

Was looking at my sector watch list, EVX was in the green. Been following it for a while.
dinky linky

EVX holds 30 waste management companies that it weights in 3 tiers. It allocates 10% of its portfolio to each of the 4 biggest companies by market cap, 2% to each of the 5 smallest, and splits the remaining 50% of its portfolio equally among the remaining issues. This causes the fund to tilt smaller than the market at large over 15% of its portfolio is in micro-caps, compared to 4% of our benchmark. The index is rebalanced and reconstituted on a quarterly basis.

I tracked down the SEC/Edgar filing on this - multiple filings dated 1/22/24. This is being done quietly as I haven't seen much news on it.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084380/000093041324000263/c107765_497k.htm
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084380/000093041324000250/c107766_497k.htm
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084380/000093041324000249/c107808_497k.htm
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084380/000093041324000236/c107752_497k.htm
etc
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I wouldn't be surprised if the market drops back another 5-10% from today. Heck, the S&P 500 is still up ~15% since the start of Nov. If I buy anything it will probably be adding to balanced fund CGBL, Capital Group Core Balanced. A limit order buy kicked in today, but I'll wait a bit to place another.
I think my only up-tick today was SPC, CROSSINGBRIDGE PRE MERGR SPAC ETF, managed by David Sherman. It was up ~.2% on this crappy day. I won't pretend to understand it completely, but I've owned it since early 2022 and it is one heck of a steady trend upward.
By the way, my 5-10% predicted drop from here will likely spur the markets to new highs :) tomorrow.

msf:
SIPC coverage is up to $500K with a $250K limit for cash. The cash coverage limit does not apply to MMF shares (those are securities), nor to bank sweep balances (that's in the bank not the brokerage and is covered by FDIC). It applies strictly to cash, pure and simple, and what I think Crash was asking about.
Yes, that smells right. :)
I have been through ALL of your responses. Very informative. I barely keep any spare cash in the brokerage account. Currently, there is a once-per-month automatic w/d by TRP from my checking account which goes to buy MM shares. PRTXX. Earns a bit less that 5% at the moment. It's mostly Treasuries. Whenever I have $$$ in that MM fund, it is only there for a short time before I use it to buy stuff. So I guess the automatic sweep rate at Schwab or Fido would not bother me, being so miniscule.
What would bother me is the transparent junk which has been mentioned: they make you deliberately switch your cash from the stinky place to the MMF which earns decent interest for the customer. The very fact that is going on steers me away from Schwab. It's crappy and underhanded.
...Not to mention that I've waited a full day to get a call-back from Schwab, from the downtown office, which has not come. Stinky poopy. Not a good sign.
Might be that I'm just stuck with TRP. The sweep account I chose PRTXX makes good interest. I might have manually selected it at the start, but since then, every bit of free cash goes there, not somewhere else, of someone ELSE'S choosing. That's just junk. I don't wanna have to be looking over my own shoulder all the time about crap like that.
Also, on the phone, I was told that despite the presence of a downtown office, that downtown office is pretty useless. And it's not just the downtown office in my city. It's by design. (I mentioned this in a different thread.) Why bother with the office, then? Have the employee meet me for lunch and we'll do stuff at some restaurant, somewhere????? Appointments are a pre-requisite. Just walking in, even as a customer, will get you nowhere. And I have read that my downtown branch will NOT ACCEPT CASH???? WTF.

Well, a reminder of DI's legendary "dancing at the exits" mantra helped push us part way out the door yesterday as previously noted to the tune of reducing our stock exposure by 25%. We had planned to let the proceeds idle for a while, waiting for BIG opportunities, but today's action was bad enough to prompt us to accelerate our DCA'ing into NEAGX and GSIHX, now leaving us close to full positions in both.
Aside: NVDA's action today makes one wonder if it is (for the time being at least) invincible. It ain't of course, but one could make the argument. Countdown is on to earnings later this month.

@Old_Joe:
>>Idle cash at Fido is swept into a fund which earns about 5% right now.

Yeah, my accounts:
FIDELITY GOVERNMENT CASH RESERVES (FDRXX) is currently 4.96% while FIDELITY GOVERNMENT MONEY MARKET (SPAXX) is currently 4.97%
@msf:
>> At Fidelity, cash is denoted FCASH. Fidelity typically keeps its interest rate the same as the rate you get on a bank sweep account. That's currently 2.69%, APY 2.72%. FCASH can be used for the core account in a taxable account.
Hmm. So FDRXX and SPAXX are not that, FCASH, evidently.
They are my core account, the latter in a taxable account.

@sma

I have not had the "sell one fund buy another" issue at Fido but usually dont do that. I find Schwab's attitude about Sweep accounts very irritating and is clearly designed to make money off of John Q Public. It seems nasty, especially coupled with their insistence on keeping cash balances high in some of their portfolios. I think the SEC went after them for that.

I don't know why it's nasty, I never use their portfolio or Intelligent Portfolios and I don't think anyone else should use these at any brokerages. What is so irritating about selling $100K of fund X and entering a trade to buy $100K in SWVXX or SNAXX? I have done it for years. If you sell shares and don't know exactly what it's going to be, you buy MM close to this amount and the rest the next day.
Most investors should just select their AA and hardly trade = not many irritations at all.
For me, there is nothing more irritating than calling Fidelity reps after I sell in an IRA, and half of them claim you can't do it, and then I insist on talking with a supervisor. That is 15 minutes and a lot longer than buying cash in 10 seconds at Schwab. I also noticed that the Fidelity reps' knowledge got lower in the last several years.

@Crash- Mr Ruffles & others have it right:
Idle cash at Fido is swept into a fund which earns about 5% right now.
Idle cash at Schwab is swept into a fund which earns less than 0.5% right now.
It's going to be up to you to keep a close eye on your cash account which earns almost nothing, and manually transfer spare cash into a MMKT or Schwab Bank checking account. As others have said, it's pretty much the one thing that nobody likes about Schwab. Offsetting this is the fact that the Schwab website is very easy to work with, and neither the brokerage nor Schwab Bank nickle & dime you on expenses.

Like others say, each has attributes. Both Schwab & Fido command a lot of respect. Today I put through 2 different OEF “buy” orders at Fido (same fund) in the last 15-20 minutes of trading. Than I subsequently cancelled each and put through yet a third with 10 minutes left in the day. Fido allowed that. It was easy, fast & seamless. Previously committed funds were immediately freed-up for another trade.
The method to my madness … ? I sold half of my position in Franklin’s INCM (ETF) and bought a similar position in its sibling FKIQX (OEF). Added a few dollars in the process. Was attempting to keep the end invested amounts as equal as possible so I can better compare them going forward. (Not an easy task with the value of the ETF constantly fluctuating.) The ETF should outperform, having only half the ER of the OEF. But I’m not convinced that will be the case. Expecting the opposite.
Don’t mind my rattling on … :) Just wanted to say how easy it is to work with Fido. During the first tumultuous year (see TRP thread) I was calling Fido about once a day for 7-10 days. But in the last 6 months … might have called them once .. . Don’t remember … There’s a learning curve. I prefer online to the app. But really smooth once you gain experience.
@Crash If you trade a lot and maintain little in the way of a cash balance (like me), Fido’s probably slightly better due to proceeds from ETF sales being immediately available vs what sounds like a 2 day wait at Schwab. For most folks that wouldn’t be a problem. But, beginning in May, due to a change in regulations, that wait at Schwab should be just 1 day - at least as I understand it.

SIPC coverage is up to $500K with a $250K limit for cash. The cash coverage limit does not apply to MMF shares (those are securities), nor to bank sweep balances (that's in the bank not the brokerage and is covered by FDIC). It applies strictly to cash, pure and simple, and what I think Crash was asking about.
Cash, often called a "free credit balance" is a general liability of the brokerage. The money is recorded as a cash asset of the brokerage and also as a liability, a debt that the brokerage owes you. The brokerage may or may not pay interest on that cash. That interest shows up on your 1099-INT.
At Fidelity, cash is denoted FCASH. Fidelity typically keeps its interest rate the same as the rate you get on a bank sweep account. That's currently 2.69%, APY 2.72%. FCASH can be used for the core account in a taxable account.
https://www.fidelity.com/trading/faqs-about-account#faq_about2
At Schwab, cash is called "Schwab One Interest." Same idea, except that Schwab One Interest and the bank sweep option are currently yielding just 0.45% APY.
https://www.schwab.com/cash-investments (see Everyday Cash)
In addition to VMFXX, Vanguard now offers a bank sweep as a core/transaction account option. This is new. As with the other brokerages, it earns less interest than the MMF option. As is typical for Vanguard, the sweep option still pays more than sweep accounts at other brokerages. It is currently paying 3.7% APY.
Vanguard settlement options: https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/vanguard-cash-deposit
Bank sweep accounts may be preferable to MMFs for some people wanting FDIC coverage. Arguably one is getting similar coverage from SIPC for cash accounts. But that counts against the total $500K SIPC coverage for the brokerage account. I don't see any good reason for using a cash account over a bank sweep or a MMF core account.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1217286/000119312524033066/d778126d497.htm
497 1 d778126d497.htm JPMORGAN TRUST I
J.P. MORGAN U.S. EQUITY FUNDS
JPMorgan Small Cap Sustainable Leaders Fund
(the “Fund”)
(All Share Classes)
(a series of JPMorgan Trust I)
Supplement dated February 13, 2024
to the current Summary Prospectuses, Prospectuses
and Statement of Additional Information, as supplemented
NOTICE OF LIQUIDATION OF THE JPMORGAN SMALL CAP SUSTAINABLE LEADERS FUND. The Board of Trustees (the “Board”) of JPMorgan Trust I has approved the liquidation and dissolution of the Fund on or about May 21, 2024 (the “Liquidation Date”). Effective immediately, the Fund may depart from its stated investment objective and strategies as it increases its cash holdings in preparation for its liquidation. On the Liquidation Date (for settlement the day after the Liquidation Date), the Fund shall distribute pro rata to its shareholders of record all of the assets of the Fund in complete cancellation and redemption of all of the outstanding shares of beneficial interest, except for any proceeds from any securities that cannot be liquidated on the Liquidation Date, cash, bank deposits or cash equivalents in an estimated amount necessary to (i) discharge any unpaid liabilities and obligations of the Fund on the Fund’s books on the Liquidation Date, including, but not limited to, income dividends and capital gains distributions, if any, payable through the Liquidation Date, and (ii) pay such contingent liabilities as the officers of the Fund deem appropriate subject to ratification by the Board. Income dividends and capital gain distributions, if any, may be paid on or prior to the Liquidation Date.
If you have a Fund direct IRA account, your shares will be exchanged for Morgan Shares of the JPMorgan U.S. Government Money Market Fund unless you provide alternative direction prior to the Liquidation Date. For all other IRA accounts, the proceeds will be invested based upon guidelines of the applicable Plan administrator. Upon liquidation, shareholders may purchase any class of another J.P. Morgan Fund for which they are eligible with the proceeds of the liquidating distribution. Shareholders will be permitted to use their proceeds from the liquidation to purchase Class A Shares of another J.P. Morgan Fund at net asset value within 90 days of the liquidating distribution, provided that they remain eligible to purchase Class A Shares. If shareholders of Class C Shares purchase Class C Shares of another J.P. Morgan Fund within 90 days of the liquidating distribution, no contingent deferred sales charge will be imposed on those new Class C Shares. At the time of the purchase, you must inform your Financial Intermediary or the J.P. Morgan Funds that the proceeds are from the Fund.
PURCHASES OF FUND SHARES BY NEW SHAREHOLDERS WILL NO LONGER BE ACCEPTED ON OR AFTER FEBRUARY 19, 2024.
PURCHASES OF ADDITIONAL SHARES BY EXISTING SHAREHOLDERS WILL NO LONGER BE ACCEPTED ON OR AFTER MAY 15, 2024.
INVESTORS SHOULD RETAIN THIS SUPPLEMENT WITH THE
SUMMARY PROSPECTUSES, PROSPECTUSES AND STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION FOR FUTURE REFERENCE
SUP-SCSL-LIQ-224

If you get over the idea of core MM, Schwab is a better choice, at least for me.
Any time I sell a fund, I enter to buy a MM fund and they pay better than Fidelity. It's really that simple.
I stated here several annoying stuff that Fidelity does.
1) I get almost all my I share buy fees of $49.95 waived. It is extremely hard to get at Fidelity. It works well with my trading
2) Cash rewards for transfer from another broker at Schwab are easier to get, all you have to show is another broker that has it. I used Etrade most time. See Etrade offers (link). Example: if you transfer $100K to Schwab you will get $300, but not at Fidelity. Tried is several times. Schwab is more flexible.
3) If you sell an OEF whole position at Fidelity IRA, you can't buy online, you must call a rep, and they will buy only at 90%, even if you sold a bond fund, this is an exclusive Fidelity thing. I hate this one so much. Sometimes when I call the rep, they claim you can't buy, you must wait another day for settlement. At Schwab, I sell a fund, and immediately buy another, in my case at 99% of the proceeds of my bond fund.
4) Schwab updates their distributions much faster. Many bond funds pay on the last day of the month, by 9 PM they are in. It can take Fidelity 1 day or even 2 days.
5) Schwab MM pay a bit more. For ni min, SWVXX=5.2%, for one million min SNAXX=5.37%. You can see Fidelity (here)
6) Schwab has more unique funds that I'm looking for with lower min.
The above are important to me, but probably not much for most. Other than that, both are the best IMO.