Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stock exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 2868
Book Description
The Stock Exchange Year-book
Author: The World's First Stock Exchange
Author: Lodewijk PetramPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231537328
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This account of the sophisticated financial hub that was 17th-century Amsterdam “does a fine job of bringing history to life” (Library Journal). The launch of the Dutch East India Company in 1602 initiated Amsterdam’s transformation from a regional market town into a dominant financial center. The Company introduced easily transferable shares, and within days buyers had begun to trade them. Soon the public was engaging in a variety of complex transactions, including forwards, futures, options, and bear raids, and by 1680 the techniques deployed in the Amsterdam market were as sophisticated as any we practice today. Lodewijk Petram’s award-winning history demystifies financial instruments by linking today’s products to yesterday’s innovations, tying the market’s operation to the behavior of individuals and the workings of the world around them. Traveling back in time, Petram visits the harbor and other places where merchants met to strike deals. He bears witness to the goings-on at a notary’s office and sits in on the consequential proceedings of a courtroom. He describes in detail the main players, investors, shady characters, speculators, and domestic servants and other ordinary folk, who all played a role in the development of the market and its crises. His history clarifies concerns that investors still struggle with today—such as fraud, the value of information, trust and the place of honor, managing diverging expectations, and balancing risk—and does so in a way that is vivid, relatable, and critical to understanding our contemporary world.
Stock Exchange Year-book
Author: The Stock Exchange Official Year-book
Author: Stock Exchange Investments
Author: William Hickman Smith AubreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Investments
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Stoy Hayward Unlisted Securities Market Year Book
Author: Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349112852
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
The USM was launched in November 1980 in order to provide a regulated market for the shares of smaller, less mature companies which do not wish to apply for a full listing and this book provides information on such companies, including financial profiles, ratio tables and graphs.
Stock Exchange Practices
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and CurrencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stock exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
The London Stock Exchange
Author: Ranald MichiePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191529346
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
In 2001, the London Stock Exchange will be 200 years old, though its origins go back a century before that. This book traces the history of the London Stock Exchange from its beginnings around 1700 to the present day, chronicling the challenges and opportunities it has faced, avoided, or exploited over the years. Throughout, the history seeks to blend an understanding of the London Stock Exchange as an institution with that of the securities market of which it was - and is - such an important component. One cannot be examined satisfactorily without the other. Without a knowledge of both, for example, the causes of the 'Big Bang' of 1986 would forever remain a mystery. However, the history of the London Stock Exchange is not just worthy of study for what it reveals about the interaction between institution and market. Such was the importance of the London Stock Exchange that its rise to world dominance before 1914, its decline thereafter, and its renaissance from the mid-1980s, explain a great deal about Britain's own economic performance and the working of the international economy. For the first time a British economic institution of foremost importance is studied throughout its entire history, with regard to the roles played and the constraints under which it operated, and the results evaluated against the background of world economic progress.
African Central Government Debt 2013 Statistical Yearbook
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264201629
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This fourth edition provides comprehensive quantitative information on African central government debt instruments, both marketable debt and non-marketable debt. The coverage of data is limited to central government debt issuance as well as bi-lateral, multi-lateral and concessional debt.
European Yearbook of Business History
Author: Terry GourvishPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429819110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
First published in 1998, The European Yearbook of Business History publishes research and review articles in English on the history of private enterprises based in individual European countries as well as studies of transnational corporations. It also includes work on public and state corporations. Its scope is all of Europe, not merely the countries of the European Union, and its prime, but not exclusive, period of interest is the 19th and 20th centuries. The first issue includes reviews of the present state and future prospects of business history in most European countries, together with articles summarising current Japanese and American perspectives on the history of European industrial and commercial enterprises.