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Record Nr.

UNISA996217134603316

Autore

Roberts Richard <1952->

Titolo

Wall Street [[electronic resource] /] / Richard Roberts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Profile Books, c2003

ISBN

1-281-03163-1

9786611031633

1-84765-025-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

The Economist books

Disciplina

332.64273

Soggetti

Financial services industry - United States

Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-261) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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