Financial Markets and Institutions (The Prentice Hall Series in Finance)

Book came in by expected delivery date and was in the condition that it stated it would be in. Great price too...saved me a bunch from having to buy my professor's select custom made book that was essentially just excerpts of this book slapped together with a 3x price tag. Yeah...university living is a scam but at least buying this book wasn't! The content itself is very informative and easy to understand for someone who isn't majoring in Finance.

The commentary is usually crap throughout the book. Looking back at all of my undergraduate material, however, I realize this book is the most important. I understand the financial system better than the vast majority of people. I'm going to buy another copy soon.(end the FED)

I was taking an SEC and financial markets class and had no background in the markets at all. I had a required text but it wasn't user friendly and a little over the top with the technical information. I previewed a few books and decided on this one. It was great. It explained everything in terms I could understand (I'm an MBA student) and wasn't painful to read like the other book. Plus the US edition of this books retails for somewhere around $200. I was able to purchase the international edition for about $50-- well worth it.

If you want to understand how the financial system here in the US and abroad runs, this is your book. VERY well written in logical order with great examples and makes hard concepts easy to understand. A really informative and good book that starts at the bare basics.

This book was ordered for school. It came in very good and extremely quickly. I would certainly use this seller again.(I am copying and pasting this comment section, because it applies to all of my school books ordered. :) )

It is a great book, just that there are some questions which were not treated in the book and they want you to figure it out yourself. It is bad. We are not magicians.

Great book. It was both very well organized, explained, and the exercises were relevant. These are all features I've found lacking in other material.

Received 10th edition instead of 7th. Did not even cover 3/4 of the material I needed for my class! Recheck ISBN number!