Understanding the Financial Services Industry

Second Instalment

In order to enhance public knowledge of the financial services industry and its significance to the economy, Stabroek Business has agreed to partner with the Guyana Association of Securities companies Intermediaries Incorporated (the Guyana Stock Exchange) to publish a series of articles on the subject.

The articles are tailored to enhance the knowledge of persons who are not necessarily specialists in the business and finance sector.

What Is Macroeconomics?

Macroeconomics is the study of what is happening to the economy as a whole. Macroeconomists’ principal task is to try to figure out why overall economic activity rises and falls: the value of production, total incomes,