Infectious greed

how deceit and risk corrupted the financial markets

Sociedades cotizadas, aumentos de capital y derecho de suscripcion preferente. Una consideración económica

Divorcing the dow

using revolutionary market indicators to profit from the stealth boom ahead

This text analyses the financial markets, provides a new framework for thinking about them and gives readers specific, contemporary, investment techniques being used in the industry to make money in the investment environment. The authors clearly deliver a tested approach to anticipating the market's ...

Wall Street people

Vol. 2: True stories of the great barons of finance

Revealing, captivating, and surprising stories of yesterday's legendary financial masterminds From its inception, Wall Street has been home to a variety of fascinating heroes and villains who have left their mark-for better or for worse-in pursuit of their financial endeavors. In Volume Two of ...

The new capital market revolution

the winners, the losers, and the future of finance

The capital markets can be defined as any organized market – or indeed private exchanges – where capital funds (debt and equity/shares) are traded in order to raise capital – cash – for the issuer or holder of the shares or debt. This also includes the multi trillion ...

Market is always right

the 10 commandements of trading any market

The Market Is Always Right answers the question, How do experienced traders control their emotions in the heat of the trading battle? Whether you are trading stocks, options, or futures, this straight- talking book shows you how to maintain a strong and steady course by ...

Financial reckoning day

surviving the soft depression of the 21st Century

INDICE 1. The Gildered Age. 2. Progress, Perfectibility, and the End of History. 3. John Law and the Origins of a Bad Idea. 4. Turning Japanese. 5. The Fabulous Destiny of Alan Greenspan. 6. The Era of Crowds. 7. The Hard Math of Demography. 8 ...

Chinese stock markets

a research handbook

The exponential growth of China's stock markets in the past decade has attracted global attention from academics and practitioners. The practitioner's interest in Chinese markets stems from corporations; investors and financial institutions foresee substantial benefits from investing in China in the long run ...

Asset prices, booms and recessions

financial market, economic activity and the macroeconomy

The book studies the interaction of the financial market, economic activity and the macroeconomy from a dynamic perspective. The financial market to be studied here encompasses the money and bond market, credit market, stock market and foreign exchange market. Economic activity is described by the ...

Common stocks and uncommon profits and other writings

Regarded as one of the pioneers of modern investment theory, Philip Fisher's principles are studied and used by numerous contemporary finance professionals, including Warren Buffett. "Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings" is useful reading and has been since it was first published ...

Wall Street on trial

a corrupted state?

The politics of business have become the business of politics. Across the world the lesson is clear: just as too much governmental interference leads to dysfunctional economies, left to its own devices the market is incapable of adequate self-regulation. The corporate malfeasance crisis in the ...

Boy wonder of Wall Street

the life and times of financier Eddie Gilbert

Eddie Gilbert, one of the most controversial and fascinating financiers of the second half of the 20th century, made three fortunes, lost two of them, went to prison twice, and landed back on top during the 1990s in a business he began to explore when ...

Why the markets went crazy

and what it means for investors

Tim Lee has a unique insight into the workings of the stock market bubble of 1995-2000 and the implications for the future. He argues that the bubble of the dot.com era reveals far more than has been realised. Deep-seated flaws in the whole investment ...

Investing under fire

winning strategies from the masters for bulls, bears, and bewildered

In Investing Under Fire, thirty of America#s top money managers, market strategists, and political, academic, and business experts provide lessons on how to interpret and navigate through these tumultuous times. Assembled by veteran market commentator Alan Ackerman, these expert views are arranged in five ...

Reinventing the bazaar

a natural history of markets

From the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-Communist economies, markets have suddenly become quite visible. We now have occasion to ask, "What makes these institutions work? How important are they ...

A mathematician plays in the stock market

Could a maths expert outwit the stock market and make millions? John Allen Paulos, one of the world#s most renowned mathematicians, decided there was only one way to find out: to take a gamble on the investment game himself. But he soon discovered that ...

Reinventing the bazaar

a natural history of markets

The force of finance

triumph of the capital markets

Reuven Brenner looks at the challenges and opportunities facing the world and provides a strong case that open capital markets, if they are allowed to happen, bring about defacto democracy - the United States in particular, but also in Latin America and Russia. He shows that ...

The electronic financial markets of the future

and survival strategies of the broker-dealers.

Wheels of fortune

the history of speculation from scandal to respectability

From Jay Gould's attempt to corner the gold market in the 1860s to the Hunt brothers's scandalous efforts to control the silver market in the 1980s, "Wheels of Fortune" traces the rich, colourful history of the futures market on its quest for respectability ...