How to read the financial pages
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2. What to look for
Broadly speaking, you are on the lookout for four categories of information:
News
- Business news
- Company results
- Takeovers and mergers
- News about the UK economy
- News about the world economy
- New issues
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Data
- Daily share prices
- Indices
- Trading volumes
- Commodity prices
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Analysis
- Market analysis
- Company analysis
- Industry analysis
- Government economic and fiscal policy
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Speculation
On the following pages, you can find out where to get this information and how to interpret it.
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