A financial market is a place—either physical or virtual—where people get together to exchange money stuff. And when we say “money stuff,” we mean stocks, bonds, foreign currencies, commodities, and any other securities.
There are approximately six katrillion different financial markets. Okay, maybe not six katrillion. But...there's a bunch. The key thing to walk away with here is that, when someone says, “the financial market,” they could be talking about anything from the New York Stock Exchange to the forex market (for currencies and stuff) to the municipal bond market.
Into cryptocurrency? There’s a financial market for that. Or, if commodities are what really blow our hair back, there’s a financial market for that, too.
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Finance a la shmoop what are capital markets? well you've heard of the great [Planet earth appears]
markets of the world the Silk Road market, the Arab markets, the stockade
markets well the same thing exists for money or
capital, investment capital what is investment capital yeah stocks
bonds derivatives above stocks and bonds like putting call options commodities
like coins and water rights and oil oh and Bitcoin don't forget Bitcoin and
yeah CME trades it now well all of those are
fruits in our little fifty trillion dollar global capital market system the [Fruits appear on global capital market system stall]
actual daily pricing intelligence that comes from capital being traded back and
forth yep money is bought and sold like used
cars that never die zombie cars that's what comprises our global capital
market system and just as in other markets well you always have to watch [Women stood by a store desk]
out for couponers
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