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- Product code: 11054
- ISBN: 0712662596,
ISBN13: 9780712662598,
430 pages, paperback
Published by Random House Business Books, New ed of 5 Revised ed edition, 2003
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Description of How to Read the Financial Pages
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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, investment ratios to takeover bids. With an extensive glossary of financial terms, this book will help you through the financial columns to a better understanding of the language of markets and money. For ten years "How to Read the Financial Pages" has been an outstanding first-choice buy for everyone who wants a thorough - but friendly - grounding in finance and investment. What are stock markets, currency markets, commodities markets? How do they operate? What are derivatives? Could they cause the financial system to crash? What is meant by insider dealing? Why is it illegal? Who are the main players in the world of money? What do stock brokers, market makers, merchant bankers and underwriters actually do? How has the Internet affected private investors? What are the new opportunities?
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Contents of How to Read the Financial Pages |
Introduction
1. First principles
2. Money flows and the money men
3. Companies and their accounts
4. The investment ratios
5. Refining the figurework
6. Equities and the Stock Exchange
7. What moves share prices?
a: In 'normal' times
b: In the crash of '87
8. Stockmarket launches
9. Issuing more shares - and buying shares back
10. Bidders, victims and lawmakers
11. Venture Capital and Leveraged Buy-outs
12. Pay, perks and reverse capitalism
13. Government bonds and company bonds
14. Banks, borrowers and bad debts
15. The money markets
16. Foreign exchange and the Euro
17. International Money: the euromarkets
18. Financial derivatives and commodities
19. Insurance and Lloyd's after the troubles
20. Commercial property and market crashes
21. Savings, pooled investments and tax shelters
22. Supervising the City
23. Print and the internet: the financial pages
Tailpiece: How to read between the lines
Glossary and index
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About Michael Brett |
Michael Brett is a freelance financial journalist, former editor of the Investor's Chronicle and a frequent lecturer on financial topics.
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