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Finance
Financial Markets
Bond market
Stock (Equities) Market
Forex market
Derivatives market
Commodity market
Spot (cash) Market
OTC market
Real Estate market
Market Participants
Investors
Speculators
Institutional Investors
Corporate finance
Structured finance
Capital budgeting
Financial risk management
Mergers and Acquisitions
Accounting
Financial Statements
Auditing
Credit rating agency
Personal finance
Credit and Debt
Employment contract
Retirement
Financial planning
Public finance
Tax
Banks and Banking
Central Bank
List of banks
Deposits
Loan
Financial regulation
Finance designations
Accounting scandals
History of finance
Stock market bubble
Recession
Stock market crash
Topics in finance include:

Fundamental financial concepts

Accounting (financial records)

Actuarial topics

Institutional setting

Financial services companies

Financial institutions

Banking terms

Financial regulation

Designations and accreditation

Fraud

Industry bodies

Regulatory bodies

United Kingdom

European Union

United States

United States legislation

Financial markets

Market and instruments

Equity market

Equity valuation

Investment theory

Bond market

Money market

Commodity market

Derivatives market

Forward markets and contracts

Futures markets and contracts

Option markets and contracts

Swap markets and contracts

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Derivative markets by underlyings

Equity derivatives
  • Accelerated Market Participation Securities (AMPS)
  • Accelerated Return Equity Securities (ARES)
  • Asset Return Obligation Securities (ASTROS)
  • Automatic Common Exchange Securities (ACES)
  • Basket Adjusting Structured Equity Securities (BASES)
  • Basket Opportunity Exchangeable Securities (BOXES)
  • Bifurcated Option Note Unit Securities (BONUSES)
  • Broad Index Guarded Equity-Linked Securities (BRIDGES)
  • Canadian Originated Preferred Securities (COPrS)
  • Closed End Fund
  • Commodity-Indexed Preferred Securities (ComPS)
  • Common-Linked Higher Income Participation Securities (CHIPS)
  • Common stock
  • Convertible Contingent Debt Securities (CODES)
  • Corporate-Backed Trust Securities (CorTS)
  • Corporate Obligation Basket Listed Trust Securities (COBALTS)
  • Currency Protected Notes (CPNS), (SPNS)
  • Currency Protected Securities (CPS)
  • Customized Upside Basket Securities (CUBS)
  • Debt Exchangeable for Common Stock (DECS)
  • Equity Growth Long-Term Strategy (EGLS)
  • Enhanced Equity-Linked Debt Securities (ELKS)
  • Enhanced Income Securities (EISs)
  • Enhanced Stock Index Growth Notes (E-SIGNS)
  • Equity Providing Preferred Income Convertible Securities (EPPICS)
  • Exchange Preferred Income Cumulative Shares (EPICS)
  • Exchange Traded Fund (ETF)
  • Exchangeable Capital Units (ExCaps)
  • Foreign Currency Return Notes (FORENS)
  • Global Bond Linked Securities (GLOBELS)
  • Hybrid Income Securities Units (HITS)
  • Income Deposit Securities (IDS)
  • Leading Stockmarket Return Securities (LASERS)
  • Leveraged Upside Indexed Accelerated Return Securities (LUNARS)
  • Liquid Yield Option Notes (Zero Cupon) (LYONS)
  • Mandatorily Exchangeable Debt Securities MEDS)
  • Mandatory Adjustable Redeemable Convertible Securities (MARCS)
  • Market Index Target Term Securities (MITTS)
  • Market Participation Securities (MPS)
  • Medium Term Equity Related Investment Securities (MERITS)
  • Monthly Income Debt Securities (MIDS)
  • Monthly Income Preferred Securities (MIPS)
  • Participating Index Notes (PINS)
  • Performance Equity-Linked Redemption Quarterly Pay Securities (PERQS)
  • Performance Equity-Return Linked Securities (PERKS)
  • Performance Leveraged Upside Securities (PLUS)
  • Principal Accruing Enhanced Return Securities (PACERS)
  • Preferred Equity Redemption Cumulative Stock (PERCS)
  • Preferred Income Equity Redeemable Shares (PIERS)
  • Preferred Redeemable Increased Dividend Equity Securities (PRIDES)
  • Preferred stock
  • Premium Equity Participating Securities (PEPS)
  • Premium Income Equity Securities (PIES)
  • Protected Exchangeable Equity-Linked Securities (PEEQS)
  • Protected Growth Securities (ProGroS)
  • Protected Performance Equity Linked Securities (PROPELS)
  • Public Credit & Repackaged Securities (PCARS)
  • Public Income Notes (PINES)
  • Putable Automatic Rate Reset Securities (PARRS)
  • Quarterly Income Capital Securities (QUICS)
  • Quarterly Income Debt Securities (QUIDS)
  • Quarterly Income Preferred Securities (QUIPS)
  • Quarterly Interest Bond (QUIB)
  • Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)
  • Reset Put Securities (REPS)
  • Return Enhanced Convertible Securities (RECONS)
  • Rights
  • Risk Adjusting Equity Range Securities (RANGERS)
  • Secure Principal Energy Receipts (SPERS)
  • Select Equity Indexed Notes (SEQUINS)
  • Senior Quarterly Income Debt Securities (SQUIDS)
  • Shared Preference Redeemable Securities (SpuRS)
  • Shares of Benefical Interest (SBI)
  • Step-Up Increasing Redeemable Equity Notes (SIRENS)
  • Step-Up REIT Securities (StREITs)
  • Stock Appreciation Income-Linked Securities (SAILS)
  • Stock market Annual Reset Term (Notes) (SMART)
  • Stock Participation Accreting Redemption Quarterly-pay Securities (SPARQS)
  • Stock Return Income Debt Securities (STRIDES)
  • Stock Upside Note Securities (SUNS)
  • Structured Asset Trust Unit Repackaging (SATURNS)
  • Structured Repackaged Asset-Backed Trust Securities (STRATS)
  • Structured Yield Product Exchangeable for Common Stock (STRYPES)
  • Subordinated Capital Income Securities (SKIS)
  • Target Return Investment Growth Securities (TRIGGERS)
  • Targeted Efficient Equity Securities (TEES)
  • Targeted Growth Enhanced Terms Securities (TARGETS)
  • Term Convertible Securities (TECONS)
  • Threshold Appreciation Price Securities (TAPS)
  • Trust Automatic Common Exchange Securities (TRACES)
  • Trust Certificate (TRUC)
  • Trust Investment Enhanced Return Securities (TIERS)
  • Trust Issued Mandatory Exchange Securities (TIMES)
  • Trust Originated Preferred Securities (TOPrS)
  • Trust Preferred Stock (TruPs)
  • Trust Units Exchangeable for Preference Shares (TrUEPrS)
  • Warrants
  • Warrants & Income Redeemable Equity Securities (WIRES)
  • Yield Enhanced Equity-Linked Debt Securities (YEELDS)
  • Yield Enhanced Stock (YES)
Interest rate derivatives
Credit derivatives

Valuation

Discounted cash flow valuation

Relative valuation

Contingent claim valuation

See also derivatives pricing

Corporate finance

Investment management

Personal finance

Public finance

Insurance

Economics and finance

Mathematics and finance

Time value of money

Financial mathematics

Mathematical tools

Derivatives pricing

Constraint finance

Virtual finance

The history of finance

Financial software tools

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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.
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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
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The bond market, also known as the debt, credit, or fixed income market, is a financial market where participants buy and sell debt securities usually in the form of bonds. The size of the international bond market is an estimated $45 trillion of which the size of outstanding U.S.
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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.
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The foreign exchange (currency or forex or FX) market exists wherever one currency is traded for another. It is by far the largest financial market in the world, and includes trading between large banks, central banks, currency speculators,
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The derivatives markets are the financial markets for derivatives. The market can be divided into two, that for exchange traded derivatives and that for over-the-counter derivatives.
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Commodity markets are markets where raw or primary products are exchanged. These raw commodities are traded on regulated commodities exchanges, in which they are bought and sold in standardized contracts.
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The Spot Market or Cash Market is a commodities or securities market in which goods are sold for cash and delivered immediately. Contracts bought and sold on these markets are immediately effective.
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Over-the-counter (OTC) trading is to trade financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, commodities or derivatives directly between two parties. It is the opposite of exchange trading which occurs on futures exchanges or stock exchanges.
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Property law
Part of the common law series
Acquisition of property
Gift  · Adverse possession  · Deed
Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property
Alienation  · Bailment  · License
Estates in land
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financial market participant categories, Investor vs. Speculator and Institutional vs. Retail. Action in financial market by Central banks is usually regarded as intervention rather than participation, although evidence exists in the Sprott '"Visible Hand of Uncle Sam"' report that
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An investor is any party that makes an investment.

The term has taken on a specific meaning in finance to describe the particular types of people and companies that regularly purchase equity or debt securities for financial gain in exchange for funding an expanding company.
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Speculation, in the narrow sense of financial speculation, involves the buying, holding, selling, and short-selling of stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, collectibles, real estate, derivatives, or any valuable financial instrument to profit from fluctuations in its
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An institutional investor is an investor, such as a bank, insurance company, retirement fund, hedge fund, or mutual fund, that is financially sophisticated and makes large investments, often held in very large portfolios of investments.
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Corporate finance is an area of finance dealing with the financial decisions corporations make and the tools and analysis used to make these decisions. The primary goal of corporate finance is to enhance corporate value while reducing the firm's financial risks.
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Structured finance is a broad term used to describe a sector of finance that was created to help transfer risk using complex legal and corporate entities.

Unfortunately structured finance, while widely used, is rarely defined and does not have a consistent definition.
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Capital budgeting (or investment appraisal) is the planning process used to determine a firm's long term investments such as new machinery, replacement machinery, new plants, new products, and research and development projects.
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Financial risk management is the practice of creating economic value in a firm by using financial instruments to manage exposure to risk, particularly Credit risk and market risk.
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mergers and acquisitions (abbreviated M&A) refers to the aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance and management dealing with the buying, selling and combining of different companies that can aid, finance, or help a growing company in a given industry grow rapidly
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Accountancy (profession) or accounting (methodology) is the measurement, statement or provision of assurance about financial information primarily used by managers, investors, tax authorities and other decision makers to make resource allocation decisions within companies,
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Financial statements (or financial reports) are formal records of a business' financial activities. These statements provide an overview of a business' profitability and financial condition in both short and long term.
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The most general definition of an audit is an evaluation of a person, organization, system, process, project or product.
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A credit rating agency (CRA) is a company that assigns credit ratings for issuers of certain types of debt obligations. In most cases, these issuers are companies, cities, non-profit organizations, or national governments issuing debt-like securities that can be traded on a
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Personal finance is the application of the principles of finance to the monetary decisions of an individual or family unit. It addresses the ways in which individuals or families obtain, budget, save and spend monetary resources over time, taking into account various financial
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Debt is that which is owed; usually referencing assets owed, but the term can cover other obligations. In the case of assets, debt is a means of using future purchasing power in the present before a summation has been earned.
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An '''employnd, sometimes, garden leave.

Some employers also use non-disclosure and non-compete clauses to protect their trade secrets from being dispersed when employees leave. Depending on where you live, the laws regarding enforcability of these clauses vary widely.
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Retirement is the point where a person stops employment completely. A person may also semi-retire and keep some sort of retirement job, out of choice rather than necessity.
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A Financial Planner or Personal Financial Planner is a practicing professional who helps people to deal with various personal financial issues through proper planning, which includes but is not limited to these major areas: tertiary education planning, retirement planning,
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Economic policy
Monetary policy
Central bank   Money supply
Fiscal policy
Spending   Deficit   Debt
Trade policy
Tariff   Trade agreement

Finance
Financial market
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Economic policy
Monetary policy
Central bank   Money supply
Fiscal policy
Spending   Deficit   Debt
Trade policy
Tariff   Trade agreement

Finance
Financial market
Financial market participants
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