Financial Dictionary: Accounting, Business & International Finance

Now more than ever, banking and finance are truly global institutions. All of the world's large economies are intricately intertwined with one another, and financial issues in one part of the world can have a near-instant ripple effect across the globe. The International Dictionary of Finance and Banking brings clarity to the web of global finance by explaining many banking concepts and financial practices in quick, accessible articles written in plain language. The web site contains thousands of articles, including:

• The "Black Monday" crashes of the U.S. stock market in 1929 and 1987
• The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• The World Bank
• The World Economic Forum
• The World Trade Organization (WTO)
• The World-Gold-Council-(WGC)
• Stock and securities exchanges around the world, including the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), London Stock Exchange, and German Stock Exchange.