The Irwin Guide to Using The Wall St.reet Journal, 6th Edition - Hardcover

Lehmann, Michael

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9780071346498: The Irwin Guide to Using The Wall St.reet Journal, 6th Edition

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ISBN 10: 007134649X ISBN 13: 9780071346498

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2000

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A tool for understanding "The Wall Street Journal", this guide shows readers how to use this source to make informed business and investment decisions. This new edition is revised to include a new design, all new examples, expanded definitions, and updated appendices, while retaining the structure of the other editions. The guide provides an in-depth review of investment choices, the stock market, commodities, and the role of interest rates in business cycles. Charts, graphs and articles taken directly from the pages of "The Wall Street Journal" offer to help the reader make sound and prudent investment decisions. Investor tips are stated succinctly in boxes strategically placed within each chapter. Written in layman's language, the guide seeks to be easy to use, for novices and seasoned investors alike.

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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 30 years.

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