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Guide to Financial Markets: Why They Exist and How They Work (Economist Books) (Paperback)

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The revised and updated 7th edition of this highly regarded book brings the reader right up to speed with the latest financial market developments, and provides a clear and incisive guide to a complex world that even those who work in it often find hard to understand.

In chapters on the markets that deal with money, foreign exchange, equities, bonds, commodities, financial futures, options and other derivatives, the book examines why these markets exist, how they work, and who trades in them, and gives a run-down of the factors that affect prices and rates.

Business history is littered with disasters that occurred because people involved their firms with financial instruments they didn't properly understand. If they had had this book they might have avoided their mistakes. For anyone wishing to understand financial markets, there is no better guide.

About the Author


Marc Levinson is a former finance and economics editor of the Economist. He was previously a senior writer at Newsweek and more recently spent ten years as an economist with JPMorgan Chase. He has published widely on economic subjects in such journals as Harvard Business Review and Foreign Affairs, and is currently senior fellow in international business at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

Product Details
ISBN: 9781610399890
ISBN-10: 1610399897
Publisher: The Economist
Publication Date: July 24th, 2018
Pages: 304
Language: English
Series: Economist Books