CNBC Creating Wealth: An Investor's Guide to Decoding the Market [Hardcover]

CNBC (Author), Brian O'Connell (Author), Bill Griffeth (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 22, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0471399086 | ISBN-13: 978-0471399087 | Edition: 1

Demystify investing and maximize your wealth-with guidance from the world's most trusted financial news network

From CNBC, the global leader of financial news, comes the most user-friendly, approachable guide to simplifying the often confusing world of finance and investing. CNBC Creating Wealth offers a complete and comprehensive introduction to world markets and shows readers how to use the information and tools currently available for maximum wealth-building. Using the hallmark CNBC approach-demystifying complex and confusing market terminology through lucid language and instructions-this accessible primer helps readers make smarter investment choices, and stay successful and secure even in volatile markets. CNBC Creating Wealth covers:

• The inside story of the stock market and creating a long-term investment portfolio
• Strategies for the most profitable investment areas, including stocks, bonds, and mutual funds
• Online tools, including research, brokers, and access to data about financial markets around the world

Editorial Reviews

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"this is an easy-to-read book aimed at the newcomer but holding some useful tips for the seasoned investor." (Lloyd's List, 7 September 2001)

From the Inside Flap

Demystify Investing and Maximize Your Wealth Potential with Guidance from the World's Leader in Business News

From CNBC comes the most user-friendly, accessible guide to simplifying the often confusing world of finance and investing. CNBC Creating Wealth offers a complete and comprehensive introduction to world markets that shows you how to choose and use the information and tools currently available for maximum wealth-building. Demystifying complex terminology through lucid language and easy-to-follow instructions, this indispensable primer helps you make smarter investment choices and hone the skills that will keep you successful and secure even in volatile markets.

In addition to giving you the inside Wall Street story, CNBC Creating Wealth covers:
* The basics of understanding the stock market and how to create a long-term investment portfolio
* Strategies for the most common investment areas, including stocks, bonds, and mutual funds
* Tools to help determine the right asset allocation
* How to make the most of online tools, including research and brokers, and gain access to real-time data about financial markets around the world
* How participating in an investment club can help individuals increase their investment return

. . . plus extensive resources, including information on government agencies, investment sites, and publications. From bulls and bears to mutual funds to bills, CNBC Creating Wealth will help you increase your return and keep you headed for the ultimate financial security.

CNBC is the recognized global leader in business news, providing real-time financial market coverage and business information to more than 175 million homes and offices worldwide.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (June 22, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471399086
• ISBN-13: 978-0471399087
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,632,308 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy to Read Practical Guide, July 13, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: CNBC Creating Wealth: An Investor's Guide to Decoding the Market (Hardcover)

Watching CNBC can be entertaining and educational but sometimes you need more information than the anchors provide about a certain story. This book gives you the background--the basics about how the stock market works and what you need to know to make smart investing decisions. There's lots of useful stuff here and you can peruse the chapters that you're interested in.

14 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank Goodness for CNBC!, July 13, 2001

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"marley1331" (Sarasota, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CNBC Creating Wealth: An Investor's Guide to Decoding the Market (Hardcover)

I am a CNBC junkie -- I just can't get enough, particularly when it comes to understanding what's going on in today's crazy markets. This book not only has same straighforward approach you find on CNBC, it also provides you with an invaluable analysis of how markets work and a list of resources where you can get up to the minute information on world markets. Any book that will help me make sense of what the current stock market is doing will help me feel confident in the choices I make as an individual investor and is worth the price. I highly recommend this book. Thanks.

1.0 out of 5 stars This book has 300 pages of absolutely nothing., December 4, 2009

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anonymous - See all my reviews

This review is from: CNBC Creating Wealth: An Investor's Guide to Decoding the Market (Paperback)

I have read more finance books then I can even remember. While none give you everything you want; most at least give you some good basics or even decent beginner strategies. This book is the rare exception to provide neither. I would go into more detail but just like the book I am frankly just unable to. There just really isnt anything to this book but the most basic of definitions and ideas (buy low sell high). This book provides no real strategies. I mean what kind of investing book outside of this one would take a whole chapter to talk about the components of a computer? (monitor, mouse, RAM)?