Wall Street [electronic resource] / Richard Roberts.

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Richard, 1952-

Publication:

London : Profile Books, c2003.

Series:

Economist books (Series)
The Economist books

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (288 p.)

Subjects:

New York Stock Exchange.
Financial services industry -- United States.
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.).

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Summary:

A guide to Wall Street, the world's leading financial centre.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; 1 What is Wall Street?; 2 How we got here; 3 Wall Street scandals; 4 Markets markets markets; 5 The securities industry; 6 Banking; 7 Insurance companies and pension funds; 8 Mutual funds; 9 Stock exchanges; 10 Futures and options exchanges; 11 Payments system clearing houses and depositories; 12 Regulation and regulators; 13 Global money centre; 14 Wall Street in crisis; Appendix 1: Financial-services industry institutions and organisations; Appendix 2 Principal players; Appendix 3 Key events 1792 2003; Further reading

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-261) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-03163-1
9786611031633
1-84765-025-2

OCLC:

476084236

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