Investing From the Top Down

The time isnowfor top-down investingIn this timely and forward-looking investment guide, leading financial expert Anthony Crescenzi helps you develop an investment strategy designed for today's economic landscape. Rather than taking a bottom-up approach, which places valuation ahead of the big picture, Crescenzi argues, you should begin top-down investing, which emphasizes larger economic and market cycles. He provides fifty tools you can use to analyze potentially profit-making trends that would necessarily be overlooked in a bottom-up approach. Investing from the Top Downcovers all major financial instruments and investment choices, including stocks, bonds, future, and commodities. Crescenzi provides a top-down perspective on such indicators as: Metals, oil, currencies and other commodities Small-business sentiment Worldwide shipping rates Changes in household wealth Events in the housing sector Imbalances in business inventories Global economic and political events'œThe 2007 credit crisis was a clarion call to embrace top-down investing,' writes the author. Here, Crescenzi explains each analytical tool in detail and describes how to utilize it in every buying and selling decision.Investing from the Top Downprovides everything you need to create a clear-sighted investment strategy based on macro economic trends and events.Crescenzi, Anthony is the author of 'Investing From the Top Down' with ISBN 9780071543842 and ISBN 0071543848.