Economics for Financial Markets
eBook - PDF

Economics for Financial Markets

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Economics for Financial Markets

About this book

Successful trading, speculating or simply making informed decisions about financial markets means it is essential to have a firm grasp of economics. Financial market behaviour revolves around economic concepts, however the majority of economic textbooks do not tell the full story.To fully understand the behaviour of financial markets it is essential to have a model that enables new information to be absorbed and analysed with some predictive implications. That model is provided by the business cycle. 'Economics for Financial Markets' takes the reader from the basics of financial market valuation to a more sophisticated understanding of the actions that traders take which ultimately drives the volatility in the financial markets. The author shows traders, investment managers, risk managers and finance professionals how to distil the flow of information and show what needs to be concentrated on, covering topics such as:* Why are financial markets subject to economic fashions?* How has the New Economy changed financial market behaviour? * Does the creation of the euro fundamentally change the behaviour of the currency markets?Shows how to distil the vast amount of information in financial markets and identify what is importantDemonstrates how the "New Economy" had changed financial market behaviourExplains how to follow the behaviour of central banks

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Information

Publisher
Butterworth-Heinemann
Year
2001
Print ISBN
9780750653848
eBook ISBN
9780080494630
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Finance
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Economics for Financial Markets
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter 1. What do you need to know about macroeconomics to make sense of financial market volatility?
  7. Chapter 2. The time value of money: the key to the valuation of financial markets
  8. Chapter 3. The term structure of interest rates and financial markets
  9. Chapter 4. How can investors forecast the behaviour of financial markets? The role of business cycles
  10. Chapter 5. Which US economic indicators really move the financial markets?
  11. Chapter 6. Consumer expenditure, investment, government spending and foreign trade: the big picture
  12. Chapter 7. So how do consumer confidence and consumer sentiment indicators help in interpreting financial market volatility?
  13. Chapter 8. The global foreign exchange rate system and the ‘Euroization’ of the currency markets
  14. Chapter 9. Why are exchange rates so volatile? The fundamental and the asset market approach
  15. Chapter 10. How can investors predict the direction of US interest rates? What do ‘Fed watchers’ watch?
  16. Chapter 11. Derivatives: what do you need to know about economics to understand their role in financial markets?
  17. Chapter 12. The new economic paradigm: how does it affect the valuation of financial markets?
  18. Chapter 13. Bubbleology and financial markets
  19. Appendix A. Diffusion indexes: their construction and interpretation
  20. Appendix B. The construction and interpretation of price indices
  21. Appendix C. Title, announcement time, and reporting entities for Macroeconomic Announcements
  22. Appendix D. Consumer and business confidence surveys
  23. Appendix E. Useful web addresses
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index