how to get more bigger picture knowledge/ understand what MDs are talking about?

I am ashamed to admit this but I don’t understand so many things about the markets and pricing(spreads) or derivative transactions or fed policies. I don’t know if banks are making or losing money at this point. what are your best sources to get such information or how to educate myself?

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Listen to bloomberg surveillance every morning (records before market opens, but they post the podcast around 11:30am) and read bloomberg / WSJ articles under the Markets / Economics categories, searching the terms of concepts you are unfamiliar with on wikipedia / google. Over the course of a few weeks, as you see the stories develop, you will understand more and more.

 

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