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How the Stock Market Works

Series: Great Courses
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Episodes
18
Rating
TVPG
Year
2014
Language
English
Publisher
The Great Courses

About

Learn how to potentially increase your wealth and avoid making expensive mistakes with How the Stock Market Works. Professor Ramon P. DeGennaro, an award-winning professor in banking and finance at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, leads you through 18 detailed lectures that explain the stock market from the inside, introducing you to the factors that make company stocks rise and fall.

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Episodes

1 to 3 of 18

1. Is Investing in Your Blood?

30m

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Begin the course by exploring the difference between beating the market and investing in it. One carries very high risk, while the other is a much safer strategy. Learn about the human propensity to look for patterns in everything - but are stock returns predictable?

2. Understanding Fundamental Securities

30m

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Learn how stock is an outgrowth of simple business relationships. Use an ingenious analogy to compare two major types of securities: stocks and bonds. Both are ways to share the assets that a corporation owns and the cash that it produces - but with crucial differences.

3. What Is the Stock Market?

30m

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The stock market may be high-tech and getting more sophisticated every year, but it is essentially like markets you already know, such as grocery stores and car dealerships. Armed with this insight, delve into the special features of stock markets and how they work.

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Ramon P. DeGennarowriter
Ramon P. DeGennaroactor