How to Understand the Financial Pages: A Guide to Money and the Jargon (Times (Kogan Page))

How to Understand the Financial Pages is a basic guide to the financial media, providing comprehensive coverage of newspapers, magazines, financial websites, stockbrokers' research and company reports. The handy A-Z format enables the reader to look up entries quickly and easily. Written with the beginner in mind, it explains essential terms and concepts in non-technical English. It goes on to cover such topics as the use of technical analysis in internet trading, the development of hedge funds and other alternative investments, and the growth of financial services regulation and compliance. Journalistic, snappy and stylish, this book will help readers gain a full understanding of what they read in the financial pages. Contents......Page 7 Acknowledgements......Page 12 Introduction......Page 15 Part 1: Your guide to the financial pages......Page 17 1 How to understand the share price tables......Page 19 2 More about shares......Page 30 3 Beyond the stock market......Page 50 4 The economy, money markets and personal finance......Page 65 Part 2: Your A-Z guide to money and the jargon......Page 75 A - Analysts in the stock market......Page 77 B - Bonds and fixed income......Page 83 C - Charts, patterns and reversal signals......Page 95 D - Derivatives......Page 120 E - Equities and stock picking......Page 137 F - Fiscal and tax......Page 152 G - Global economy and foreign exchange......Page 158 H - Hedging, short selling and hedge funds......Page 177 I - Insurance and pensions......Page 182 J - Jollies and freebies......Page 201 K - Key technical indicators......Page 203 L - Loss control and money management......Page 215 M - Money markets......Page 218 N - Numbers, accounting and capital adequacy......Page 225 O - Operating ethics and corporate governance......Page 251 P - Personal finance and property......Page 258 Q - Quotations, share issues and capital markets......Page 269 R - Regulation and compliance......Page 279 S - Securities exchanges, markets, clearing and settlement......Page 292 T - Trading and takeovers......Page 313 U - Unit trusts and similar......Page 323 V - Volume and open interest......Page 331 W - Waves, cycles, trends and Dow......Page 333 X - Exclusions......Page 342 Y - Your portfolio and the cost of capital......Page 343 Z - Z terminology......Page 355 Appendices......Page 357 Appendix 1 Internet resource......Page 359 Appendix 2 Further reading......Page 369 Index......Page 373 Index of advertisers......Page 384

How to Understand the Financial Pages is a basic guide to the financial media, providing comprehensive coverage of newspapers, magazines, financial websites, stockbrokers' research and company reports.

 

The handy A-Z format enables the reader to look up entries quickly and easily.  Written with the beginner in mind, it explains essential terms and concepts in non-technical English.  It goes on to cover such topics as the use of technical analysis in internet trading, the development of hedge funds and other alternative investments, and the growth of financial services regulation and compliance.

 

Journalistic, snappy and stylish, this book will help readers gain a full understanding of what they read in the financial pages.

The handy A–Z format enables you to look up entries quickly and easily. Essential terms and concepts are explained in non-technical English, and it is extensively cross-referenced. A valuable reference tool for any private investor, it is international in scope and includes references to the use of technical analysis in internet trading, the development of hedge funds and other alternative investments, and the growth of financial services regulation and compliance — something other guides often omit. Veteran City professional Alexander Davidson divulges more of the experts' secrets in this user-friendly reference tool for any would-be investor. He provides both a complete grounding in investment basics, and sound advice on how to deal with the volatile conditions of today's 'bear' market How to Understand the Financial Pages is an informative and accessible reference guide to the terms and jargon that fill the pages of the financial press - from bonds and shares, to hedge funds and alternative investments, and to depositary receipts and bonds. A guide to the financial media which explains the essential terms and concepts found in newspapers and magazines, financial websites, stockbrokers' research and company reports