The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing
The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing initiates you into the mysteries of the financial pages—buying stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures, and options, spotting trends, and evaluating companies. For those who are curious but intimidated by everyday financial jargon, this guide offers a literate forthright and lively alternative. It covers the latest tax laws and provides additional information about decimal stock pricing, electronic trading systems, the new U.S. currency, and managed accounts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Paper Money
The U.S. Dollar
The Money Cycle
Other Forms of Money
The Federal Reserve System
Controlling the Money Flow
Measuring Economic Health
Consumer Confidence
The Economic Cycle
The World of Money
Trading Money
Money Away from Home
STOCKS
Stocks: Sharing a Corporation
The Right to Vote
The Value of Stock
The Stock Certificate
Selling New Stock
Stock Buyers
Buying Stocks
Selling Short
Buying on Margin
Stock Quotations
Reading the Stock Tables
Sifting Stock Information
Evaluating Companies
The Traditional Stock Market
The Electronic Stock Market
Reading the Averages
Market Indexes
Traders Around the Clock
Tracking International Markets
The World Stock Index
International Investing
The Bond Certificate
Figuring A Bond's Worth
Rating Bonds
Tracking Bond Performance
Municipal Bonds
U.S. Treasury Bonds, Notes and Bills
A Bond Vocabulary
Buying and Trading Bonds
Other Bonds, Other Choices
The World of Bonds
MUTUAL FUNDS
Mutual Funds: Putting It Together
The Mutual Funds Market
Targeted Investments
Special Purpose Funds
Inside a Mutual Fund
Mutual Fund Quotations
It's All in the Charts
Tracking Fund Performance
The Prospectus
International Funds