Fed Watching: Making Sense of Market Information (Financial Times Series) (Paperback)

~ Brian Kettell (Author)

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Product Description

This book cuts through the myster of the FED, providing readers with a jargon free guide.

From the Back Cover

The US Federal Reserve is the world's most powerful central bank and as such is watched and analyzed by financial market professionals on all sides of the globe. And with good reason, for the consistent attention paid to "the Fed" reflects the bank's crucial position in influencing not only US economic policy but, in turn, economic policy worldwide.

In an age of information overload, Fed-Watching is designed to help finance professionals identify and decipher the important market signals indicated by the Fed's actions and to distinguish these signals from the "noise" of irrelevant information.

Fed-Watching demystifies the operations, objectives and impact of the US Federal Reserve, whilst delivering practical advice to potential "Fed-watchers" on how to analyze the bank's strategies and indicator's.

This book highlights how to interpret and predict the actions and reactions of the Fed — enabling readers to gain an inside view of the key factors affecting US interest rates and with them the prospects for the US dollar. This book provides guidance in the form of a well proven set of guidelines to follow for Fed-watchers seeking to gain a serious insight into the workings of the Fed.

Fed-Watching is essential reading for dealers, analysts, newcomers to the financial markets, and finance professionals across the board who need to maintain their edge at the forefront of developments in international financial markets.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Financial Times/Prentice Hall (October 25, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0273630725
• ISBN-13: 978-0273630722
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,203,838 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)