FT Guide To Bond & Money Markets

This jargon-busting book shows how bond & money markets work & how they impact on everyday life.

• Understand terms & products
• Explore types of markets & their functions
• Discover factors influencing market prices
• Learn how fluctuations can affect your money strategies

The Financial Times Guide to Bond and Money Markets is your definitive introduction to the financial marketplace. This book provides an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the workings of the modern financial system. It will help you understand key bond and money market terms and will demystify the different types of markets, explain the role of money market instruments and reveal how fluctuations in the marketplace can affect you and your own money strategies.

The Financial Times Guide to Bond and Money Markets:

· Provides an easy-to-follow guide to bond and money markets

· Helps you understand the various markets and their functions

· Explains in-depth finance theory and mathematical structures

· Features comprehensive graphs and real case studies from the Financial Times

This jargon-busting book describes how the bond and money markets work and how they impact on everyday life. It assumes no specialised prior knowledge of finance theory and provides an authoritative and comprehensive run-down of the workings of the modern financial system.

It’s in the money markets where money, or the value of money, can be bought and sold. It’s the place where Treasury bills, deposits, repurchase agreements, short-lived mortgages etc, can be traded. These are crucial to the global economy because they provide liquidity funding for the global financial system.

Bond markets operate in the same way but are financial markets where participants can issue new debt or buy and sell existing debt – known as bonds. As with money markets, bond markets are key because they provide money where no money previously existed (think of your mortgage).

Using real world examples from media such as the Financial Times, bestselling author Glen Arnold gives an international perspective on these markets.

• Understand key bond and money market terms and banking products
• Explore the wide variety of types of markets and their functions eg. LIBOR, gilts, government debt
• Gain insight into the main factors influencing prices in the financial markets
• Learn how fluctuations in the money markets can affect you and your own money strategies