The New York Times Dictionary of Money and Investing: The Essential A-to-Z Guide to the Language of the New MarketAn indispensible resource for today's independent investors More Americans than ever are directing their own investments, and thousands of "experts" promise information on the best stocks and bonds to buy. To be successful in the markets, investors need to dig out of the information overload and the unintelligible lingo. Using examples to help simplify complex financial issues and written in lively, understandable language, Gretchen Morgenson and Campbell R. Harvey explain and cross-reference more than 3,500 investing terms, from the rules surrounding abandonment options to when you should expect to pay interest on zero-coupon bonds. They define the risks and rewards that accompany various investments and help you find meaningful information on a company's or fund's financial statements. Among the terms they decode: - the markets, the indexes, and how they work, including the NYSE, Nasdaq, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Russell 2000, S&P 500, and Wilshire 5000 - discounted investment opportunities, such as employee stock purchase plans and DRIPs - tools for estimating company earnings, P/E ratios, quarterly EPS and GPS momentum, and analyst target prices This is the essential A-to-Z reference for understanding the jargon, the nonsense, and the language of investing. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 18 |
Section 3 | 31 |
Section 4 | 72 |
Section 5 | 84 |
Section 6 | 98 |
Section 7 | 120 |
Section 8 | 133 |
Section 13 | 196 |
Section 14 | 210 |
Section 15 | 224 |
Section 16 | 261 |
Section 17 | 264 |
Section 18 | 289 |
Section 19 | 330 |
Section 20 | 354 |
Common terms and phrases
agreement American depositary receipt amount analysis assets bank bankruptcy bond A bond borrowing broker brokerage firm buy or sell buyer called capital gains cash flow common stock company's convertible security corporation cost coupon currency dealer debt deposit dividend earnings equity exchange rate Federal Reserve firm's foreign fund A mutual futures contract holder income interest rate interest rate swap investment investors issuer known lender liabilities loan margin market maker maturity ment mortgage mortgage-backed securities municipal bond mutual fund Nasdaq number of shares NYSE obligation offering operations Opposite paid payment pension percent percentage period portfolio position preferred stock premium profit purchase put option rate of return ratio refers securities seller shareholders sold specified Stock Exchange stock price strategy takeover tion trading transaction Treasury Treasury securities trust U.S. dollars underlying underwriting usually yield yield curve