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How the Economy Works
An Investor's Guide to Tracking the Economy
Author: Edmund A. Mennis
Publisher: New York Institute of Finance
Softcover Published 10/91 292p. List $15.95

This book provides investors with the basic economic principles they need to know for personal financial planning. It discusses the key economic indicators reported regularly in the media, puts them in economic perspective, and explains their relation to investment problems.



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How to Read and Profit from Financial News
Author: Gerald Krefetz
Publisher: Dearborn Financial Pub.
Hardcover Published 09/95 208p. List $19.95

This book offers a tour of the basics, such as stocks, bonds, options, derivatives, the Federal Reserve System, and metals. It explains each investment vehicle with insights into how economic trends and world events affect various investments. Readers learn how to monitor their portfolio to avoid surprising shocks.



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How to Read and Understand the Financial News
Author: Gerald Warfield
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Softcover Published 01/94 241p. List $13.00

This book will help readers understand newspaper and magazine reports about the financial world. The author defines financial terms and phrases and also explains the stock and bond markets, mergers and acquisitions, leading economic indicators, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average.



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Informed Investor's Guide to Financial Quotations
Evaluating Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds, Futures, and Options
Author: Howard M. Berlin
Publisher: Irwin Professional Publishing
Hardcover Published 02/94 250p. List $50.00

Busy investors rely on a variety of sources for the financial data they need to make decisions. This book puts the most important information from all of these sources at investors' fingertips so they can obtain the data they need in moments. This one-stop resource contains information from the primary sources of financial data that investors rely on daily, explains how each source can be used to find specific information, and more.



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The Ticker Symbol Book 1997
Author: Standard & Poor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Softcover Published 10/96 351p. List $8.95

This book provides a guide to those essential abbreviations on America's online screens, cable financial channels, screens, and "on the tape" in brokers' offices. Conveniently arranged for anyone using online financial services, each entry also includes the name of the exchange where the security trades.



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Wall Street Words
From Annuities to Zero Coupon Bonds
Author: Richard J. Maturi
Publisher: Probus Pub. Co.
Softcover Published 03/95 171p. List $16.95

This book provides a concise explanation of the investment markets and defines and explains hundreds of words and terms. It also discusses the potential risks and reward associated with various investment strategies and demonstrates how investors can determine whether a particular strategy is appropriate for them.



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