Financial market
A financial market is the market in which people trade financial securities together with derivatives at low transaction costs. Some of a securities put stocks as alive as bonds, raw materials and precious metals, which are asked in the financial markets as commodities.
The term "market" is sometimes used for what are more strictly exchanges, organizations that facilitate the trade in financial securities, e.g., a stock exchange or commodity exchange. This may be a physical location such(a) as the New York Stock Exchange NYSE, London Stock Exchange LSE, JSE Limited JSE, Bombay Stock Exchange BSE or an electronic system such as NASDAQ. Much trading of stocks takes place on an exchange; still, corporate actions merger, spinoff are external an exchange, while all two multinational or people, for whatever reason, may agree to sell the stock from the one to the other without using an exchange.
Trading of currencies and bonds is largely on a bilateral basis, although some bonds trade on a stock exchange, and people are building electronic systems for these as well, to stock exchanges. There are also global initiatives such(a) as the United Nations Sustainable Development aim 10 which has a talked to update regulation and monitoring of global financial markets.