Financial Markets
Bond market
Stock (Equities) Market
Forex market
Derivatives market
Commodities market
Spot (cash) Market
OTC market
Real Estate market
Finance studies and addresses the ways in which individuals, businesses, and organizations raise, allocate, and use monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1024x768, 183 KB) Wall Street Sign. ... In economics a financial market is a mechanism that allows people to easily buy and sell (trade) financial securities (such as stocks and bonds), commodities (such as precious metals or agricultural goods), and other fungible items of value at low transaction costs and at prices that reflect efficient markets. ... The bond market, also known as the debit, credit, or fixed income market, is a financial market where participants buy and sell debt securities usually in the form of bonds. ... A stock market is a market for the trading of company stock, and derivatives of same; both of these are securities listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately. ... In finance, the exchange rate between two currencies specifies how much one currency is worth in terms of the other. ... The derivatives markets are the financial markets for derivatives. ... Chicago Board of Trade Commodity market Commodity markets are markets where raw or primary products are exchanged. ... Template:The Spot Market The Spot Market or Cash Marketis a commodities or securities market in which goods are sold for cash and delivered immediately. ... Over-the-counter (OTC) trading is to trade financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, or derivatives directly between two parties. ... Real estate is a legal term that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings. ...

Market Participants
Investors
Speculators
Institutional Investors
There are two basic financial market participant catagories, Investor vs. ... Investment is a term with several closely related meanings in finance and economics. ... Speculation is the buying, holding, and selling of stocks, commodities, futures, currencies, collectibles, real estate, or any valuable thing to profit from fluctuations in its price as opposed to buying it for use or for income - dividends, rent etc. ... An institutional investor is an investor who is an institution like a bank, insurance fund, retirement fund, or mutual fund manager. ...

Corporate finance
Structured finance
Capital budgeting
Financial risk management
Mergers and Acquisitions
Accounting
Financial Statements
Auditing
Credit rating agency
Corporate finance is a specific area of finance dealing with the financial decisions corporations make and the tools as well as analyses used to make these decisions. ... Structured finance describes any non-standard way of raising money. ... The process of determining which potential long-term projects are worth undertaking, by comparing their expected discounted cash flows with their internal rates of return. ... Financial risk management is the practice of creating value in a firm by using financial instruments to manage exposure to risk. ... Merger redirects here. ... It has been suggested that Accounting scholarship be merged into this article or section. ... Historical financial statement Financial statements (or financial reports) are formal records of a business financial activities. ... Basic definition Audit is the examination of records and reports of a company, in order to check that what is provided is relevant and accurate. ... A credit rating agency (CRA) is a company that assigns credit ratings for issuers of certain types of debt obligations. ...

Personal finance
Credit and Debt
Employment contract
Retirement
Financial planning
 United States Personal finance is the application of the principles of finance to the monetary decisions of an individual or family unit. ... Credit as a financial term, used in such terms as credit card, refers to the granting of a loan and the creation of debt. ... For other uses, see Debt (disambiguation). ... An employment contract is an agreement entered into between an employer and an employee at the commencement of the period of employment and stating the exact nature of their business relationship, specifically what compensation the employee will receive in exchange for specific work performed. ... Retirement is the point where a person stops employment. ... A financial planner is a professional who helps people with various financial needs including: college planning, retirement planning, investments, life insurance, estate planning and more. ...

Public finance
Tax
Public finance (government finance) is the field of economics that deals with budgeting the revenues and expenditures of a public sector entity, usually government. ... A tax is a financial charge or other levy imposed on an individual or a legal entity by a state or a functional equivalent of a state (for example, tribes, secessionist movements or revolutionary movements). ...

Banks and Banking
Central Bank
List of banks
Deposits
Loan
BRD-SG in IaÅŸi - A small branch dedicated to retail services For other uses, see Bank (disambiguation). ... This is a list of banks throughout the world. ... Bank deposits are the large part of the money supply. They come in different types depending on withdrawal restrictions. ... A loan is a type of debt. ...

Financial regulation
Finance designations
Accounting scandals
Financial supervision is government supervision of financial institutions by regulators. ... There are a variety of Finance designations or Accreditations that can be earned, and awarded to those in the finance industry. ... Accounting scandals, or corporate accounting scandals are political and business scandals which arise with the disclosure of misdeeds by trusted executives of large public corporations. ...

History of finance
Stock market bubble
Recession
Stock market crash
A stock market bubble is a type of economic bubble taking place in stock markets when price of stocks rise and become overvalued by any measure of stock valuation. ... A recession is traditionally defined in macroeconomics as a decline in a countrys real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for two or more successive quarters of a year (equivalently, two consecutive quarters of negative real economic growth). ... Black Monday (1987) on the Dow Jones Industrial Average A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market. ...