How to Read the Financial Pages: A Simple Guide to the Way Money Works and the Jargon - Couverture souple

Brett, Michael

 
9780712675604: How to Read the Financial Pages: A Simple Guide to the Way Money Works and the Jargon

Synopsis

This revised guide is designed to show how the world of investment and finance works and to clarify the associated jargon. It explains the operation of stock-markets, currency markets and commodity-markets and also defines the roles of bankers, brokers and underwriters.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Stripping away the mystique from the world of investment and finance, this book is a layman's guide to reading and understanding the financial press and the markets and events that it covers. The author provides a valuable explanation of the workings of the financial world from money markets to commodity markets, privatisation to takeover bids. With an extended glossary of financial terms, and newly updated to take account of all the latest changes in legislation, this book will help you through the financial columns to a better understanding of the language of markets and money.

Biographie de l'auteur

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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