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UNINA9910679282003321 |
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Roberts Richard <1952-> |
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Titolo |
Wall Street [[electronic resource] /] / Richard Roberts |
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London, : Profile Books, c2003 |
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1-281-03163-1 |
9786611031633 |
1-84765-025-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Financial services industry - United States |
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-261) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A guide to Wall Street, the world's leading financial centre. |
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