capital market
Definition
Financial market that works as a conduit for demand and supply of (primarily) long-term debt and equity capital. It channels the money provided by savers and depository institutions (banks, credit unions, insurance companies, etc.) to borrowers and investees through a variety of financial instruments (bonds, notes, stocks) called securities. A capital market is not a compact unit, but a highly decentralized system made up of three major parts: (1) stock market, (2) bond market, and (3) money market. It also works as an exchange for trading existing claims on capital in the form of shares.
capital market is in the Accounting & Auditing, Banking, Commerce & Finance, Investing and Securities & Futures Trading subjects.
capital market appears in the definitions of the following terms: International Finance Corporation (IFC), money market, fractal market hypothesis (FMH), coherent market hypothesis, Modiglani-Miller hypothesis, risk, catastrophe bond, random walk theory, financial markets and efficient market hypothesis
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