Performance Of Securities Markets
Introduction and Needed Defintions: We will start our presentation by exhibiting the overall meaning of Securities Markets: "Securities Markets" is a phrase that does not stand-alone by itself, in order to understand what are really these markets and in order to deeply get involved in their detailed subcategories we need to make an overview of what these markets are? ... We will start with the definition of financial markets: The financial markets: Are markets, which facilitate the raising funds of the investment of assets. ... The financial market can be divided into different subtypes: „Ð Capital markets, they consist of four sub markets. „Ð Money markets, which provides short term debt financing and investment. „Ð Derivatives markets, which provides instruments for handling of financial risks. „Ð Futures markets, which provide standardised contracts for trading assets at some forward date „Ð Insurance markets, which facilitates handling of various risks. „Ð Foreign exchange markets In our study well concentrate on Capital markets taking the Securities markets as our core study. ... Stock markets, which facilitates equity investment and buying and selling of shares. They are markets for the trading of publicly held company stocks or shares and associated financial instruments (including stock options, convertibles and stock index futures). Traditionally such markets were open-outcry where trading occurred on the floor of an exchange. These days increasingly the markets are cyber-markets with buying and selling occurring via online real-time matching of orders placed by buyers and sellers. ... Bond markets, which provides financing through the issue of debt contracts and the buying and selling of bonds and debentures. ... Primary markets, are the financial market for the initial issue and placement of securities. ... Secondary market or what so called Aftermarkets, Securities that have already been issued may also be trades. ... The aftermarket is the financial market for trading of already issued securities. In the secondary market, securities are sold by and transferred from one investor to another. ... The secondary market has three main types of organized markets that facilitate the actual purchase and sale of securities.