Shut Up and Keep Talking : Lessons on Life and Investing from the Floor of the New York Stock Exchange / Bob Pisani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pisani, Robert L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalists and financiers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 pages)

Place of Publication:

Petersfield, GREAT BRITAIN : harriman house ltd, [2022]

Summary:

"Bob Pisani is Senior Markets Correspondent for CNBC and has spent the past 25 years on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. He has been on the front line of finance for all the major events of the last quarter century, including the Asian Financial Crisis, the dot-com bubble and collapse, the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and the Great Financial Crisis. What was it like to witness these events firsthand, at the center of the financial world? In Shut Up and Keep Talking, Bob tells a series of captivating stories that reveal what he has learned about life and investing. These include encounters with a host of stars, world leaders and CEOs, including Fidel Castro, Robert Downey Jr., Walter Cronkite, Aretha Franklin, Barry Manilow, Jack Ma, Joey Ramone, and many more. Along the way, Bob describes how the investment world has changed, from brokers shouting on the floor of the NYSE to fully electronic trading, from investment sages and superstars picking stocks for exorbitant fees to the phenomenal rise of low-cost index funds that are saving investors millions, and from the belief that investors make rational decisions to the new age of behavioral finance, which recognizes the often-irrational nature of human decision making and seeks to understand its role in the stock market. Bob also considers what really moves stocks up and down and tackles the big questions: why is stock picking so hard, and why is the future so unknowable?"--Publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Praise

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

About the author

Foreword by Burton G. Malkiel

Preface

Part One Working at the NYSE

Chapter 1 Welcome to the New York Stock Exchange

Chapter 2 What's News?

Chapter 3 My Favorite Part of My Job

Chapter 4 Art Cashin and the Art of Storytelling

Part Two Looking Back

Chapter 5 How Do You Stop People from Panicking?

Chapter 6 1999: Walter Cronkite, Muhammad Ali, and the End of the Party

Chapter 7 The Dot-Com Bust and the End of the Rainbow

Chapter 8 The Wizards of Oz

Chapter 9 "We're Going to Take Down the NYSE"

Chapter 10 Lessons from Jack Bogle, and Other Masters

Chapter 11 9/11 and the Search for Calm

Chapter 12 "They Killed It": the NYSE 2000-2008

Chapter 13 The Financial Crisis and the Death of the Baby Boomers

Part Three Does Anything Work?

Chapter 14 What Makes Stocks Go Up and Down?

Chapter 15 Can Anyone Predict the Market?

Chapter 16 Can Anyone Get the Future Right?

Chapter 17 Why Is Everyone So Bad at Predicting the Future?

Chapter 18 The Gang That Couldn't Trade Straight

Chapter 19 On Giving Financial Advice to Your Family

Chapter 20 Trading Hits and Misses: What I Learned Investing My Own Portfolio

Chapter 21 Black Sabbath and Why I Am Still Not Rational

Chapter 22 What I Believe about the Stock Market

Chapter 23 Bob 2.0: On Being a Fox and Other Things I've Learned

Part Four Encounters on the NYSE Floor, and Elsewhere

Chapter 24 A Head-Scratcher with Fidel Castro

Chapter 25 Barry Manilow: On Perseverance and the Art of the Comeback

Chapter 26 Mike Wallace and the First Commandment of Broadcast Journalism

Chapter 27 Aretha Franklin: People Will Open Up to You if You Find What Animates Them

Chapter 28 Joey Ramone: "I Got Mutual Funds!"

Appendices.

Appendix 1 ETFs and the Origin of Indexing

Appendix 2 Understanding Bubbles

Appendix 3 58 Maxims on Life, Television, and the Stock Market

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Notes

Index

Plates.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780857199225

0857199226