The Irwin Guide to Using the Wall Street Journal - Softcover

LEHMANN

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070371199 ISBN 13: 9780070371194

Publisher: Irwin Professional Publishing, 1997

Synopsis

This guide aims to show readers how to use the "Wall Street Journal" to gain a comprehensive and accurate view of the economy, the financial markets and general business conditions. It offers detailed coverage of investments, contains expanded definitions and updated practical applications.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

A Step-by-Step Blueprint for Improving Your Investment Performance Using The Wall Street Journal, the World's Number One Business Information Resource.

The Irwin Guide to Using The Wall Street Journal has shown over a quarter of a million investors how to locate and profitably use the investment information found daily in The Wall Street Journal. Now, this invaluable reference has been updated to include the latest charts, examples, and information on every facet of the investing world, with sample articles and data taken directly from the pages of The Journal itself!

In addition to being the definitive tool for understanding and gaining ever edge from reading The Wall Street Journal, this perennial bestseller is a complete guidebook on investing. Explanations and examples cover virtually every aspect of business as it relates to investing and how The Journal will help keep you ahead of the pack on hundreds of critical topics including:

-How and why interest rates affect markets.
-How deficits impact the inflation rate and the markets.
-When we can expect the next recession.
-The Federal Reserve's and federal government's impact on your investment portfolio.
-Which fixed income market is right for you.
-Whether the stock markets and investors are living on borrowed time.

The Irwin Guide to Using The Wall Street Journal, Sixth Edition, is an essential resource for all investors who want to spot promising trends, base their decisions on solid information from the world's leading business information resource and lead you into a new era of investment knowledge and success.

About the Author:

Michael B. Lehmann, Ph.D., has been a professor of Economics at the University of San Francisco for more than thirty years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Irwin Professional Publishing
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0070371199
• ISBN 13: 9780070371194
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 416