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Accounting & Marketing

ISSN: 2168-9601

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Capital Markets

A capital market is a financial market which buys and sells long-term debt (over a year) or equity-backed securities. Capital markets channel the savers' wealth to those who can put it to long-term productive use, like long-term investments by companies or governments. Modern capital markets are almost always hosted on computer-based electronic trading platforms; most can only be accessed by financial sector agencies or government and corporate treasury departments but others can be accessed directly by the public. For example, any American citizen with an internet connection in the United States can create an account with Treasury Direct and use it to buy bonds in the primary market, although sales to individuals constitute only a tiny fraction of the total volume of bonds sold. Various private companies offer browser-based platforms which allow individuals to purchase shares and sometimes even secondary markets. There are several thousands of these schemes, most of which cover only small parts of the capital markets at large. Entities which host the systems include stock exchanges, investment banks and departments of government.

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