Product Description

Finance and Financial Markets is a major new text designed for introductory undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA courses in finance. It provides a comprehensive yet relatively non technical introduction to modern day financial institutions, markets and instruments. The text covers the role of financial intermediaries, interest rate determination, the domestic money and capital markets. There is also extensive coverage of international markets such as the Eurocurrency and Eurobond markets.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #93278 in Books
• Published on: 1998-02-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

John Thompson, Emeritus Professor of Finance, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
'...is updated with discussion of the many developments since the well-received first edition. Accessible to both students and practitioners.'

Dr Everton Dockery, Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Portsmouth, UK
'...will provide business and finance students with a firm understanding of financial markets [and] a strong grounding in financial methods'

John Thompson, Emeritus Professor of Finance, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
...[I]t is a welcome addition to the literature on this subject.

Customer Reviews

Excellent overview of subject
I selected this book from a few other texts mainly because
it was well presented and somewhat less heavy to carry around.
Well it seems to cover most of what you need to know in finance
banking, hedge funds, foreign exchange, bond pricing, stocks,
how to trade futures and a good intro to options and their
pricing. I really learnt a lot about finance and all the
different instruments that are traded. This guy writes in a very
clear style, I found some of the maths a bit offputting but
I suppose it is part of the subject - at least there are plenty
of examples for those like me that don't have the maths
background. I trade a lot on the spread bets so now I feel a lot
more confident about the risks I am undertaking and it has
increased the range of contracts I can trade.

Finance & Financial Mkts Review
A very informative book covering a diverse set of topics. Put in plain english with a sensible format which is very easy to understand.

Periodic detailed examples helped put 2 and 2 together, and allows for a mathemtical and economical interpretation of the material.

Very good book!

content
The book is of good quality, except the spine of the book is too thin, so after I read it, the spine is a little tucked.