How to Read the Financial Pages

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The business bestseller written for the layman - which the City firms buy as well
What are stock markets, money markets, currency markets, commodities markets? How do they operate? What are the implications of Britain's entry into the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the European Monetary System?
What is meant by insider dealing? Why is it illegal? Who are the main players in the world of money? What do stockbrokers, marketmakers, merchant bankers or underwriters do?
Was the Big Bang really a revolution? What caused the Crash of 1987?
Stripping away the mystique from the world of investment and fináncé, How to Read the Financial Pages is a layman's guide to reading and understanding the financial press and the markets and events that it covers. Assuming no existing 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... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The business bestseller written for the layman - which the City firms buy as well
What are stock markets, money markets, currency markets, commodities markets? How do they operate? What are the implications of Britain's entry into the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the European Monetary System?
What is meant by insider dealing? Why is it illegal? Who are the main players in the world of money? What do stockbrokers, marketmakers, merchant bankers or underwriters do?
Was the Big Bang really a revolution? What caused the Crash of 1987?
Stripping away the mystique from the world of investment and fináncé, How to Read the Financial Pages is a layman's guide to reading and understanding the financial press and the markets and events that it covers. Assuming no existing 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 and journalistic terms - what is a traded option or a leveraged buyout? - this book will help you through the financial columns to a better comprehension of the language of markets and money. Reprinted a dozen times since its first publication in 1987, this guide now features on many training courses and academic lists.
This new, third edition is expanded to explain the main changes in the financial world since 1989, and particularly the implications of Britain's entry into the ERM. Somé of the mistakes and misconceptions of the 1980s are exposed and the book explains the financial background of the post-Thatcher world of the 1990s. Vissza