Markets
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Markets are places where buyers and sellers come together to exchange goods, services, or securities.
A farmer's market sells produce; a stock market trades shares.
The term extends to abstract systems of exchange: the housing market, the labor market, the market for ideas.
To market something is to promote or sell it.
Market forces are the economic pressures of supply and demand that shape prices and availability.
Furnish or stock
- demandForceful request or requirement
- competitionStruggle for supremacy
- consumersThose who buy goods
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
pricing · monopoly · trade · commerce · globalization · deregulation · economics · equilibrium
Open-air merchant district
- vendorsThose who sell goods
- stallsDelays or compartments
- souksArab open-air markets
- merchantsThose who conduct commerce
hawkers · bargaining · shoppers · groceries · produce · street vendors · booths · haggling
Ownership stakes or inventory
- tradingExchanging for value
- Wall StreetAmerican finance hub
- investorsThose who commit capital
- sharesUnits of company ownership
commodities · bulls · bears · portfolio · bonds · securities · exchange · futures
supply
Furnish or stock
- demandForceful request or requirement
- competitionStruggle for supremacy
- consumersThose who buy goods
capitalism · pricing · monopoly · trade · commerce · globalization · deregulation · economics · equilibrium · scarcity
bazaar
Open-air merchant district
merchants · hawkers · bargaining · shoppers · groceries · produce · street vendors · booths · haggling · artisans
stocks
Ownership stakes or inventory
- tradingExchanging for value
- Wall StreetAmerican finance hub
- investorsThose who commit capital
shares · commodities · bulls · bears · portfolio · bonds · securities · exchange · futures · volatility
demographics
Statistical population characteristics
customers · emerging · penetration · saturation · share · expansion · research · analysis · trends · positioning
butchers
Kills and prepares livestock
seasonal · organic · local · wholesale · meat · seafood · vegetables · fruit · herbs · cheese
Marketscentral planning
Government directs all production
command economy · planned economy · state control · communism · socialism
Marketsseizure
Forcible taking or convulsion
subsistence · self-sufficiency · gift economy · redistribution · confiscation
Marketshierarchies
Ranked organizational structures
bureaucracy · firms · corporations · government · administration
- stock marketSecurities trading venue
- on the marketOffered for sale
- flea marketOutdoor secondhand goods venue
- the marketAggregate of buyers, sellers
- open-air marketUncovered retail gathering space
- market squarePublic trading area
market, marketed, marketing, marketer, marketers, marketplace, marketplaces, marketable, unmarketable