financial markets
Where securities trade
Financial markets are systems where securities, commodities, currencies, and other financial instruments are bought and sold.
Stock markets, bond markets, and foreign exchange markets are all financial markets.
The term often appears in news about economic conditions: Financial markets tumbled on recession fears.
These markets determine prices through supply and demand and channel capital between investors and institutions.
- tradingExchanging for value
- stocksOwnership stakes or inventory
- equitiesOwnership stakes in corporations
- initial public offeringFirst stock market sale
- securitiesTradeable financial assets
bonds · systemic risk · stock exchanges · liquidity · commodities · arbitrage · hedging · derivatives · hedge funds · bears · Dow Jones · stock ticker · closing bell · sovereign debt · ticker · investment · bulls · speculation
- financebank, CFO, banks, controller, treasurer
- global financeinternational banking, central banks, capital flows, exchange rates, foreign exchange
- investingstocks, stock, bonds, investing, investor
- US Commercecommerce, trade balance, foreign trade, trade deficit, trade surplus
- FedFederal Reserve, FOMC, monetary policy, interest rates, rate cut
- Forex Regulationcurrency reserves, AML, compliance officers
financial marketsfarmers markets
Open-air local food bazaars
manufacturing sector · goods and services · street markets · open-air markets · village markets
financial marketsmanufacturing
Industrial product creation
agriculture · industrial sector · Main Street · construction industry
financial marketsunderground economy
Unreported commercial activity
barter systems · household economy · subsistence economy · gift economy · black market
market, finance, marketing, finances, financial, financing, markets, financed, marketer