The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money & Investing

Kenneth M. Morris, Alan M. Siegel

Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 1993, 155 pages

ISBN: 0-671-89451-X

Keywords: Finance

Last modified: Aug. 7, 2021, 8:10 p.m.

The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money & 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.

  • Money
    • The History of Money
    • Paper Money
    • The U.S. Dollar
    • The Money Cycle
    • Other Forms of Money
    • The Federal Reserve System
    • Controlling the Money Flow
    • The Money Supply
    • Measuring Economic Health
    • Consumer Confidence
    • The Consumer Price Index
    • 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 Stock
    • Selling Short
    • Buying on Margin
    • Stock Quotations
    • Reading the Stock Tables
    • Sifting Stock Information
    • Evaluating Companies
    • The Traditional Stock Market
    • Trading on the New York Stock Exchange
    • The Electronic Stock Market
    • Reading the Averages
    • Market Indexes
    • Market Cycles
    • Crash!
    • Traders Around the Clock
    • Tracking International Markets
    • The World Stock Index
    • International Investing
  • Bonds
    • Bonds Financing the Future
    • 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
  • Futures & Options
    • Futures and Options
    • Commodities
    • The Futures Exchanges
    • Trading Futures Contracts
    • Hedgers and Speculators
    • How Futures Work
    • Reading Futures Tables
    • Financial Futures
    • A World of Options
    • Reading Options Tables
    • Using Options
    • Other Options
    • Tracking Other Options

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The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing

Reviewed by Roland Buresund

Good ******* (7 out of 10)

Last modified: May 21, 2007, 2:47 a.m.

If you don't understand money and the stock exchange after this, you're a hopeless case.

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