Market
1. Markets generally.
A place or structure (physical or virtual) where buyers and sellers (directly or through intermediaries) trade goods, services, information, contracts or financial instruments.
Markets may be closely regulated, or relatively unregulated.
An example of a regulated market - as defined by the markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) - is the London Stock Exchange.
2. Market segmentation.
A subset of any other market.
For example, considering an agricultural commodity, the wholesale and retail markets for that commodity.
3. Integration and holistic perspectives on markets.
A market may also be a broader concept, including two or more other markets.
For example, the corporate debt market includes both the bond market and the loan market.
See also
- 24/7
- Alternative Investment Market (AIM)
- Black market
- Capital market
- Cash market
- Commodity
- Debt capital market (DCM)
- Deep market
- Demand
- Efficient market
- Efficient market hypothesis (EMH)
- Emerging market
- Equity market
- Ethics
- Financial markets
- Forward market
- Free market
- Grey market
- Liquid market
- London Stock Exchange
- Market abuse
- Market environment matrix (MEM)
- Market maker
- Market mechanism
- Market price
- Market risk
- Market taker
- Market value
- MiFID
- Money market
- Off-market
- Primary market
- Product Market Matrix (PMM)
- Regulated market
- Regulation
- Retail
- Secondary market
- Segmentation
- Single Market
- Spot market
- Supply
- Wholesale
