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FT Guide to Using the Financial Pages Romesh Vaitilingam

FT Guide to Using the Financial Pages By Romesh Vaitilingam

FT Guide to Using the Financial Pages by Romesh Vaitilingam


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Summary

A guide to finding, reading, understanding and acting on financial information. It explains where and when to find what you want and how to make use of the range of financial and economic statistics available.

FT Guide to Using the Financial Pages Summary

FT Guide to Using the Financial Pages by Romesh Vaitilingam

This fully revised and updated guide is an essential reference for anyone who wants to read and really understand the financial pages. It explains where and when to find the critical information, and how to make the best use of the full range of financial and economic data available, within the pink pages or at the click of a button. Includes the latest information on globalization and the other ways the internet and IT have transformed finance and investing. "The definitions and insight this book provides will remain of lasting value to readers." - Financial Times "An invaluable and straightforward guide." - Business Age "A good buy for anyone interested in the subject." - The Independent

FT Guide to Using the Financial Pages Reviews

"For an indepth guide on the figures published in the FT try The FT Guide to Using the Financial Pages." - Bloomberg Money, October 2006

About Romesh Vaitilingam

Romesh Vaitilingam is a media consultant and writer. He is the author of numerous articles and several successful titles in finance, economics and public policy, including The Ultimate Investor: The People and Ideas that Make Modern Investment (with Dean LeBaron) and The Financial Times Guide to Using Economics and Economic Indicators. As a specialist in translating economic and financial concepts into everyday language, Romesh has advised a number of top management consultancies and investment managers, as well as various UK government agencies. His work also involves media consultancy for the international economic research community, notably advising the Royal Economic Society and the Centre for Economic Policy Research on the management and development of their public profile.

Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction Part 1: Identifying the players 1 Investors 2 Companies 3 Financial institutions 4 Governments Part 2: Interpreting the markets 5 Stocks and shares: the UK equity markets 6 Indices and aggregates: market indicators 7 NYSE and Nasdaq: the US equity markets 8 European equities: stock markets in the eurozone and beyond 9 Other international equities: emerging stock markets and world indices 10 Trusts and funds: the managed money markets 11 Bonds and gilts: the international capital markets 12 Cash and currency: the foreign exchange and money markets 13 Futures and options: the derivatives market 14 Primary products: the commodities market Part 3: Understanding the economies 15 UK economic indicators 16 The European economy: market integration and monetary union 17 The world economy: trade, growth and international institutions Part 4: Beyond the financial pages 18 Company and investor lives: the key performance indicators by Ken Langdon 19 Finance on the internet: using the electronic financial pages 20 Sources of information: a brief guide Appendix 1: The key ratios guide Appendix 2: The key indices guide Index

Additional information

GOR001292680
9780273705031
0273705032
FT Guide to Using the Financial Pages by Romesh Vaitilingam
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pearson Education Limited
2005-12-15
336
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