For investors at all levels. Completely updated, this practical guide has the informationinvestors need to keep up in the complex, fast-paced, and highlyprofitable world of options and futures, where everything is inplay—from oil to diamonds, poultry to vaccines, franchises tocoffee. ? Provides cutting edge information on energy futures andoptions ? Tools for creating flexible strategies that can move with thetimes ? New information on the solid standbys like livestock, preciousmetals, and equities ? Keyed to the new realities of the global economy, making thisbook vital for investors at all levels ? Highly respected expert author

As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointingbegan. Should the blame fall on greedy traders, lazy regulators, orclueless home buyers? According to Bethany McLean, author of thebestselling Enron book "The Smartest Guys in the Room", and JoeNocera, the star "New York Times" columnist, the real answer is allof the above. Many devils helped bring hell to the economy. Yetdespite all the analysis of the crash, no one has put all thepieces together and named those responsible. Until now.

Is your investment in that new Internet stock a sign of stockmarket savvy or an act of peculiarly American speculative folly?How has the psychology of investing changed--and not changed--overthe last five hundred years? Edward Chancellor examines the natureof speculation--from medieval Europe to the Tulip mania of the1630s to today's Internet stock craze. A contributing writer to The Financial Times and The Economist , Chancellorlooks at both the psychological and economic forces that drivepeople to "bet" their money in markets; how markets are made,unmade, and manipulated; and who wins when speculation runsrampant. Drawing colorfully on the words of such speculators as SirIsaac Newton, Daniel Defoe, Ivan Boesky, and Hillary RodhamClinton, Devil Take the Hindmost is part history, partsocial science, and purely illuminating: an erudite and hugelyentertaining book that is more timely today than ever before.

Over the past quarter century, Understanding Wall Street has helped everyone from rookie investors to Wall Street veterans understand exactly how the market works and how to determine which stocks to buy ... and which to avoid. The fourth edition of this top-selling guide--still as easy-to-read, practical, and comprehensive as the first three--has been completely updated to help investors prosper in today's new, no-limits marketplace.

Perino recounts in riveting detail the 1933 hearings that putWall Street on trial for the Great Crash. Never before in Americanhistory had so many financial titans been called to account beforethe public, and they had come within a few weeks of emergingunscathed.

Throughout history, mergers and acquisitions have been the major game played on Wall Street. These deals have had far-reaching effects, on the worlds of finance and industry - more than most commentators or financiers are publicly willing to admit. Deals of the Century captures this dynamic moment in history by taking an in-depth look at the most notable merger and acquisition deals of the twentieth of Carnegie Steel in 1901 to the creation of the former AOL Time Warner, renowned business historian and bestselling author Charles Geisst traces the deals that have had the most dramatic impact on the worlds of both finance and industry over the past century. Decade by decade, you'll be introduced to the personalities behind each event, as industries are built, dismantled, and reorganized by "professionals" driven mainly by the profits extracted from the deals themselves. Engaging and informative, Deals of the Century paints an exciting portrait of the incredible M&A journey and illustrates how many of

Through every type of market, William J. O'Neil's nationalbestseller, How to Make Money inStocks, has shown over 2 millioninvestors the secrets to successful investing. O'Neil'spowerful CANSLIM~ Investing Systemma proven seven-step process for minimizingriskand maximizing gains--has influenced generations ofinvestors.Based on a major study of all the greatest stock marketwinners from 1880 to 2009, thisexpanded edition gives you:

An insider's look at security analysis and business valuation,as practiced by Wall Street, Corporate America, and internationalbusinesses Two major market crashes, numerous financial and accountingscandals, growth in private equity and hedge funds, Sarbanes Oxleyand related regulations, and international developments changedsecurity analysis and business valuation substantially over thelast fourteen years. These events necessitated a second edition ofthis modern classic, praised earlier by Barron's as a "welcomesuccessor to Graham and Dodd" and used in the global CFAexam. This authoritative book shows the rational, rigorous analysis isstill the most successful way to evaluate securities. It picks upwhere Graham and Dodd's bestselling Security Analysis - for decadesconsidered the definitive word on the subject - leaves off.Providing a practical viewpoint, Security Analysis on Wall Streetshows how the values of common stock are really determined intoday's marketplace. Incorporating dozens of

Written by Wall Street’s top commodity research firm, The CPM Gold Yearbook 2008 provides in-depth statistics, analysis, and forecasts for gold. The supply and demand fundamentals of this commodity are displayed in detailed charts and graphs, providing you with the information needed to make fully informed investment decisions. Filled with invaluable reference data, The CPM Gold Yearbook 2008 is a focused guide that will help you succeed in this dynamic market.

YOU WANT LESS. You want fewer distractions and less on yourplate. The daily barrage of e-mails, texts, tweets, messages, andmeetings distract you and stress you out. The simultaneous demandsof work and family are taking a toll. And what's the cost?Second-rate work, missed deadlines, smaller pay cheques, fewerpromotions-and lots of stress. AND YOU WANT MORE. You want moreproductivity from your work. More income for a better lifestyle.You want more satisfaction from life, and more time for yourself,your family, and your friends. NOW YOU CAN HAVE BOTH-LESS AND MORE.In The ONE Thing, you'll learn to cut through the clutter achievebetter results in less time build momentum toward your goal dialdown the stress overcome that overwhelmed feeling revive yourenergy stay on track master what matters to you The ONE Thing isthe New York Times bestseller which delivers extraordinary resultsin every area of your life-work, personal, family, and spiritual.WHAT'S YOUR ONE THING?

Professional and managerial guide to conducting mergers and acquisitions, featuring a collection of articles from leading business scholars. Topics covered include friendly acquisition, integration managers, trade-offs in acquisitions, and who stays and who goes. Softcover. DLC: DLC: Consolidation and merger of corporations.

The Warren Buffett Way provided the first look into thestrategies that the master uses to pick stocks. A New York Timesbestseller, it is a valuable and practical primer on the principlesbehind the remarkable investment run of the famed oracle of Omaha.In this much-awaited companion to that book, author Robert Hagstromtakes the next logical step, revealing how to profitably managestocks once you select them. THE WARREN BUFFETT PORTFOLIO will helpyou through the process of building a superior portfolio andmanaging the stocks going forward. Building a concentratedportfolio is critical for investment success. THE WARREN BUFFETTPORTFOLIO introduces the next wave of investment strategy, calledfocus investing. A comprehensive investment strategy used withspectacular results by Buffett, focus investing directs investorsto select a concentrated group of businesses by examining theirmanagement and financial positions as compared to their stockprices. A strategy that has historically outperformed the market,focus

This book was written to offer encouragement and basicinformation to the individual investor. Who knew it would gothrough thirty printings and sell more than one million copies? Asthis latest edition appears eleven years beyond the first, I'mconvinced that the same principles that helped me perform well atthe Fidelity Magellan Fund still apply to investing in stockstoday. It's been a remarkable stretch since One Up on Wall Street hit thebookstores in 1989. I left Magellan in May, 1990, and pundits saidit was a brilliant move. They congratulated me for getting out atthe right time -- just before the collapse of the great bullmarket. For the moment, the pessimists looked smart. The country'smajor banks flirted with insolvency, and a few went belly up. Byearly fall, war was brewing in Iraq. Stocks suffered one of theirworst declines in recent memory. But then the war was won, thebanking system survived, and stocks rebounded. Some rebound! The Dow is up more than fourfold since October, 1990,from the 2,400 lev

Somewhat controversially, Gad makes the point that value and growth investing are much more similar than most investors think -- value investors look for growth in the companies in which they invest. He then walks readers through the pitfalls that most investors fall victim too -- most of which involve not really understanding the margin of safety and how it is applied. Gad sets the stage by presenting the core value framework for beginning to advanced investors and money managers. With the backdrop of evaluating businesses (and not stocks), The Business of Value Investing introduces a blueprint to successful value investing with a focus on six key Buffett strategies. These essential points are presented and backed up with real-world case studies.

Michael Moe was one of the first research analysts to identifyStarbucks as a huge opportunity following its IPO in 1992. And formore than fifteen years, he has made great calls on many otherstocks, earning a reputation as one of today’s most insightfulmarket experts. Now he shows how winners like Dell, eBay, and Home Depot couldhave been spotted in their start-up phase, and how you can findWall Street’s future giants. He forecasts the sectors with thegreatest potential for growth, and explains his four Ps of futuresuperstars: great people, leading product, huge potential, andpredictability. Moe also includes interviews with some of the biggest names inbusiness—like Howard Schultz, Bill Campbell, and Michael Milken—whoreveal their own insights into how they discover the stars oftomorrow.

"This book deserves a place on every serious investor’sshelf." –FINANCIAL TIMES "A must-read for all disciples of value investing. In 1934,Graham and Dodd created fundamental security analysis. Greenwaldreinforces the worth of this approach, incorporates new advances,and takes their work into the twenty-first century." –Mario J. Gabelli, Chairman, Gabelli Asset Management, Inc. "The new title most deserving of your time is Value Investing . .. . Its authors aim to place their work next to Benjamin Graham’s1950 classic, The Intelligent Investor. My 1986 edition came withWarren Buffett’s endorsement–‘by far the best book on investingever written.’ Value Investing is better." –Robert Barker, BusinessWeek "Greenwald is an economist (PhD from MIT) who caught the valuebug. He has updated and expanded Graham’s ideas, and his summerseminars ($2,900 for two days) have become popular with everyonefrom well-known money managers to Columbia MBAs who couldn’

You know what happened during the financial crisis … now it istime to understand why the financial system came so close tofalling over the edge of the abyss and why it could happen again.Wall Street has been saved, but it hasn’t been reformed. What isthe problem? Suzanne McGee provides a penetrating look at the forces thattransformed Wall Street from its traditional role as acapital-generating and economy-boosting engine into a behemothoperating with only its own short-term interests in mind and withreckless disregard for the broader financial system and those whorelied on that system for their well being and prosperity. Primary among these influences was “Goldman Sachs envy”: theself-delusion on the part of Richard Fuld of Lehman Brothers,Stanley O’Neil of Merrill Lynch, and other power brokers (egged onby their shareholders) that taking more risk would enable theircompanies to make even more money than Goldman Sachs. Thathubris—and that narrow-minded focus on maximizing their

Updated for paperback publication, Aftershock is a brilliantreading of the causes of our current economic crisis, with a planfor dealing with its challenging aftermath. When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directedalmost universally at Wall Street bankers. But Robert B. Reich, oneof our most experienced and trusted voices on public policy,suggests another reason for the meltdown. Our real problem, heargues, lies in the increasing concentration of wealth in the handsof the richest Americans, while stagnant wages and rising costshave forced the middle class to go deep into debt. Reich’sthoughtful and detailed account of where we are headed over thenext decades—and how we can fix our economic system—is a practical,humane, and much-needed blueprint for restoring America’s economyand rebuilding our society.

As many investors know, gold is a “safe-haven” asset that can actually increase in value during stock market slides and times of recession. But what else do you really know about this commodity? Are you taking full advantage of it? Do you know how to work it into your overall investment strategy? This detailed tutorial provides you with a comprehensive understanding of gold, from mine to market. Jonathan Spall, a 25-year veteran of the metals market, explains everything you'll need to know for making gold a profitable part of your investment strategy. Investing in Gold gives you an inside look at how the precious metal is mined, refined, traded, and priced, along with valuable insight into gold's unique position in the marketplace. Spall explores such topics as: Simple and complex gold trading processes The pivotal role central banks play in the gold market Gold exchange traded funds (ETFs) How spot gold is traded Why gold mining companies have traditionally hedged