Book Description

Financial Market is an introductory textbook in the area of finance.The book discusses on various basic topics on Malaysian financial market such as investing in shares, bonds and derivatives instruments. It endeavors to provide a clear, simple and partical style of delivering the subject matter to the reader via worked examples, graphs, tables and illustrations.This is to ensure readers have good graps of the basic principles, theories and practical applications. The book also includes topics of regional and global importance such as the Asian Financial Crisis and recent US Subprime Mortgage Crisis to provide an understanding of the impact of the crisis to the financial market. Another key distinguishing feature of this book is it has included a chapter about the Malaysian Islamic Capital Market. The discussion about the various Islamic financial instruments has been kept simple without excessive technical and legal jargons. This clearly differentiates it form others on the shelf. The authors hope that the books focus on easy manner discussion approach to the various financial emerging topics would leave the reader intellectually stimulated and satisfied.