A financial market is a market in which people trade financial securities and derivatives at low transaction costs. Some of the securities include stocks...

The 2007–2008 financial crisis, or the global financial crisis (GFC), was the most severe worldwide economic crisis since the Great Depression. Predatory...

The Dubai Financial Market (DFM) (Arabic: سوق دبي المالي) is a stock exchange located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was founded on 26 March 2000....

There are several concepts of efficiency for a financial market. The most widely discussed is informational or price efficiency, which is a measure of...

Financial market infrastructure refers to systems and entities involved in clearing, settlement, and the recording of payments, securities, derivatives...

thus also includes a formal study of the financial markets themselves, especially market microstructure and market regulation. It is built on the foundations...

two basic financial market participant distinctions, investors versus speculators and institutional versus retail. Action in financial markets by central...

A stock market, equity market, or share market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers of stocks (also called shares), which represent ownership claims...

IMC Financial Markets, sometimes referred to as IMC Trading, is a proprietary trading firm and market maker for various financial instruments listed on...

concerns financial management and consumer finance. The finance industry in its most common sense concerns commercial banks that provide market liquidity...

called financial crises include stock market crashes and the bursting of other financial bubbles, currency crises, and sovereign defaults. Financial crises...

A financial system is a system that allows the exchange of funds between financial market participants such as lenders, investors, and borrowers. Financial...

investors or retail investors. (See Financial market participants.) The lending is often indirect, through a financial intermediary such as a bank, or via...

willingness of the private financial system to support lending. Concerns about the soundness of U.S. credit and financial markets led to tightening credit...

Financial law is the law and regulation of the commercial banking, capital markets, insurance, derivatives and investment management sectors. Understanding...

secondary market, also called the aftermarket and follow on public offering, is the financial market in which previously issued financial instruments...

Physics of financial markets is a non-orthodox economics discipline that studies financial markets as physical systems. It seeks to understand the nature...

Financial contagion refers to "the spread of market disturbances – mostly on the downside – from one country to the other, a process observed through...

set of hypotheses about the behavior of markets or agents into numerical predictions. At the same time, "financial modeling" is a general term that means...

Financial Times–based list is up to date as of December 2006. Indicated changes in market value are relative to the previous quarter. This Financial Times–This...

only to individual investments: whole portfolios are subject to market risk. Financial institutions and asset managers that oversee portfolios are subject...

capital market is a financial market in which long-term debt (over a year) or equity-backed securities are bought and sold, in contrast to a money market where...

The objectives of financial regulators are usually: market confidence – to maintain confidence in the financial system financial stability – contributing...

The derivatives market is the financial market for derivatives - financial instruments like futures contracts or options - which are derived from other...

relatively long-term consequences for both its financial markets and real economy. During a strong five-year bull market, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)...

largest market in the world, followed by the credit market. The main participants in this market are the larger international banks. Financial centers...

He regards his insights into market behaviour from applying the principle as a major factor in the success of his financial career. Reflexivity is inconsistent...

phrase Big Bang, used in reference to the sudden deregulation of financial markets, was coined to describe measures, including abolition of fixed commission...

list of financial regulatory and supervisory authorities, central banks are only listed where they act as direct supervisors of individual financial firms...

motion models for financial markets are based on the work of Robert C. Merton and Paul A. Samuelson, as extensions to the one-period market models of Harold...