| Abstract from DBPedia | A financial market is a market in which people trade financial securities and derivatives at low transaction costs. Some of the securities include stocks and bonds, raw materials and precious metals, which are known 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 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 outside an exchange, while any two companies 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 as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10 which has a target to improve regulation and monitoring of global financial markets.金融市場（きんゆうしじょう、英: financial market）とは、資金の貸借取引が行われる場、あるいは資金需給が調整される場（市場）ないし過程のことをいい、金利はそこに成立する価格のことをいう。この場合、資金の貸借取引の範囲ないし資金の性格いかんによって、金融市場の意味も広狭さまざまに理解される。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Financial_market) |
