The informed investor's guide to financial quotations

About this book

Investors rely on a wide variety of sources for the financial data they need to make decisions. The Informed Investor's Guide to Financial Quotations puts the most important information from all of these sources at investors' fingertips, so that they can quickly and easily obtain the data they need. Howard Berlin describes as simply and clearly as possible how to read, understand, and interpret the financial market quotations that appear in the financial press, as well as in many local newspapers from a wide range of markets. Information on stocks, bonds, Treasury securities, agencies, futures, options, mutual funds, and foreign currency exchanges is readily available in this one-stop resource. The Informed Investor's Guide to Financial Quotations:. Contains information from the sources investors rely on daily, including Investors' Daily, Barron's, ValueLine, Moody's, Morningstar, Standard & Poor's, and syndicated and local newspapers. Explains how each source can be used to find specific information and shows how to interpret various symbols, ratios, and formulas. Features topically divided sections and lists of additional sources of information, making it easy for investors to find exactly what they need. To add clarity, all quotation formats are explained column by column and term by term. All major formulas are boxed to emphasize their importance, and many numerical examples are used to illustrate the use of the formulas and the interpretation of the results. This is the ideal tool for investors at any level of expertise, as well as anyone taking courses in economics and finance that require the ability to follow financial markets. From the anatomy of the stock ticker symbol, to an analysis of the foreign exchange and the dollar, this sourcebook provides readers with the knowledge they need to understand and use financial and economic data.