Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: Your guide to the financial pages -- 1 How to understand the share price tables -- 2 More about shares -- 3 Beyond the stock market -- 4 The economy, money markets and personal finance -- Part 2: Your A-Z guide to money and the jargon -- A - Analysts in the stock market -- B - Bonds and fixed income -- C - Charts, patterns and reversal signals -- D - Derivatives -- E - Equities and stock picking -- F - Fiscal and tax -- G - Global economy and foreign exchange -- H - Hedging, short selling and hedge funds -- I - Insurance and pensions -- J - Jollies and freebies -- K - Key technical indicators -- L - Loss control and money management -- M - Money markets -- N - Numbers, accounting and capital adequacy -- O - Operating ethics and corporate governance -- P - Personal finance and property -- Q - Quotations, share issues and capital markets -- R - Regulation and compliance -- S - Securities exchanges, markets, clearing and settlement -- T - Trading and takeovers -- U - Unit trusts and similar -- V - Volume and open interest -- W - Waves, cycles, trends and Dow -- X - Exclusions -- Y - Your portfolio and the cost of capital -- Z - Z terminology -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 Internet resource -- Appendix 2 Further reading -- Index -- Index of advertisers.