Part II. Using The Financial Pages to Make Basic Investments

Using The Financial Pages to Make Basic Investments

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This section takes a closer look at the stock market basics that we saw in Part I, and it looks at the relative merits of stocks against cash investments. Then it explores the weird upside-down world of bonds, where everything revolves around the interest rates rather than the bond prices themselves. Finally we return to the cash investing theme with a summary of what's available and what some of the basic terminology means.

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