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GLOBAL FINANCE AND FINANCIAL MARKETS
A Modern Introduction
by Ferdinand E Banks (Uppsala University, Sweden)
This is an elementary, up-to-date text and reference book in global finance. It has been especially designed for beginning students in economics and finance, and also for self-study by anyone with a knowledge of secondary school algebra and an interest in finance and financial markets. The subjects taken up in some details are stocks (shares), bonds, interest rates and derivatives, particularly futures, options, and swaps. There are also chapters on exchange rates and banking, and readers are provided with an elementary introduction to risk and uncertainty. The book is also an easily read supplement to more technical presentations, in that it introduces all categories of readers to real world financial markets.
Contents:
- The World of Money
- Banking and Banks
- An Applicable Introduction to
the Stock Market
- Introduction Futures and Options
- An Introduction to Exchange Rates
- Interest Rates, Yields, and Bonds
- Global Finance
- Risk, Uncertainty, and Financial Assets
- Into the 21st Century
Readership: Students doing a basic or intermediate course, or self-study, in
finance.
"Ferdinand E Banks has presented the whole matter of global finance in a very simple way which can be understood by any person of finance and financial market with little knowledge of secondary school algebra ... The book is useful for both the first year students of financial management as well as those who want to know about global finance and financial markets in general."
| 332pp |
Pub. date: Feb 2001 |
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