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: What is a Liquid Market?17 Views
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All right Weir Liquid markets Good Well because they implied
there's Lots of cash ready willing and able to be
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healthy risk seeking active market versus risk averse one which
is you know hiding Ah liquid market means that investors
want to put their cash toe work that they have
actually saved cash along the way and or that they
have relatively easy access to credit And you can think
about it from the perspective of your kindly loving realtor
who wants a world where lots of people are buying
homes But in orderto have that happen you have to
have lots of people who are also selling homes at
the same time Otherwise prices just go higher and higher
with no supply to meet demand And at the end
of the day in real estate and it's in the
stock market while the most important thing yes that the
brokers get pays So that's a liquid market one that
trades a lot like it's Wet trading back and for
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