Liquidity and Trading in Bond Markets: Why Bonds Are So Hard to Trade
Book: Systematic Fixed Income: An Investor’s Guide Author: Scott A. Richardson, Ph.D. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2022 ISBN: 9781119900139
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Book: Beating the Street by Peter Lynch with John Rothchild | ISBN: 978-0-671-75915-5
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