How to Read the Financial Pages

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The business bestseller written for the layman

which City firms buy as well
• What are stock markets, currency markets, commodities markets? How do they operate?
• What are derivatives, and why is the financial world getting . steamed up about them? Could they caüse a financial system crash?
• What is meant by insider dealing ? Why is it illegal?
t Who are the main players in the world of money? What do stock brokers, market makers, merchant bankers and underwriters do?
• What sparked the boardroom pay and perks explosion? Are shareholders benefiting too?
Stripping away the mystique from the world of investment and finance, How to Read the Financial Pages is a layman's guide to reading and understanding the financial press and the markets and events it covers. Assuming no financial knowledge, Michael Brett provides a valuable explanation of the workings of the financial world - from money markets to commodity markets, privatisation to takeover bids. With an extensive... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The business bestseller written for the layman

which City firms buy as well
• What are stock markets, currency markets, commodities markets? How do they operate?
• What are derivatives, and why is the financial world getting . steamed up about them? Could they caüse a financial system crash?
• What is meant by insider dealing ? Why is it illegal?
t Who are the main players in the world of money? What do stock brokers, market makers, merchant bankers and underwriters do?
• What sparked the boardroom pay and perks explosion? Are shareholders benefiting too?
Stripping away the mystique from the world of investment and finance, How to Read the Financial Pages is a layman's guide to reading and understanding the financial press and the markets and events it covers. Assuming no financial knowledge, Michael Brett provides a valuable explanation of the workings of the financial world - from money markets to commodity markets, privatisation to takeover bids. With an extensive glossary of financial terms -what is a traded option, a leveraged buy out or a hedge fund? -this book will help you through the financial columns to a better compréhension of the language of markets and money.
Reprinted 16 times since its first publication in 1987, this guide features on many training courses and academic reading lists. This new fourth édition is comprehensively revised and updated to explain the implications of the recession that followed the Thatcher boom of the late 1980s and the structural changes that are taking place in the world of finance as we head for the millennium. Vissza