Guide to financial markets - Marc Levinson

Extensively revised to reflect the dramatic shifts and consolidation of the financial markets, the seventh edition of this highly regarded book provides a clear and incisive guide to a complex world
that even those who work in it often find hard to understand.With
chapters on the markets that deal with money, foreign exchange,
equities, bonds, commodities, financial futures, options and other
derivatives, it looks at why these markets exist, how they work and who
trades in them, and it gives a run-down of the factors that affect
prices and rates.Business history is littered with disasters
that occurred because people involved their firms with financial
instruments they didn't properly understand. If they had had this book
they might have avoided their mistakes. For anyone wishing to understand
financial markets, there is no better guide.