Investigative Economic and Financial Reporting

Course review:

How the more complicated financial instruments such as hedge funds operate, and the interaction between markets.

• Sharpening your interpretation of financial jargon
• International currency flows
• Quantitative easing: why governments print money
• How central banks prop up the system
• How investment banks encourage the City culture
• Recessions and the economic cycle explained
• How futures and options markets operate
• How to develop good financial writing for your audience
• The rise and fall of global hedge funds
• Credit default swaps - weapons of maths distruction