Financial Market * a kind of market where the financial management operates‚ no physical existence‚ it only involved money‚ consist of the legal and tax framework. Financial Institutions * refers to banks‚ lending companies‚ credit cooperatives‚ pawnshops‚ insurance companies‚ government agencies (SSS‚ GSIS‚ PHILHEALTH‚ PAGIBIG). Why do Financial Market exists? * In order to facilitate the interaction between providers of capital such as savers and investors and users of capital such
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Impact of Industrial development on Nigeria stock market. The potentials of capital market in Nigeria as a catalyst to economic and industrial development cannot be over emphasized. The capital market as an internal part of a country’s financial system operates at the long end of the system to mobilize resources for long term development and growth. Basically‚ the capital market accelerates growth by providing ‚relatively long term capital - debt and equity finance – for government and corporate
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THE EFFECTS OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS ON NIGERIA’S ECONOMY The global financial crisis began in the United States of America and the United Kingdom when the global credit market came to a standstill in July 2007 (Avgouleas‚ 2008). The crisis‚ brewing for a while‚ really started to show its effects in the middle of 2008. Around the world stock markets have fallen‚ large financial institutions have collapsed or been bought out‚ and governments in even the wealthiest nations have had to come up with
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Financial Markets in Pakistan A financial market is a place for buying and selling of financial securities such as stocks and bonds. It facilitates: * The raising of capital (in the capital markets) * The transfer of risk (in the derivatives markets * In matching those who want capital to those who have it. Financial Market in Pakistan consists of (i) Money Market which provides short term funds and (ii) Capital Market which makes long terms funds available to businesses and industries
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Definition: The market where transactions of money and financial assets are accomplished for short time is called money market. On the other end‚ capital market is meant that market where transactions of money and financial assets are occurred for a long period. * Institutions: Important institutions operating in the’ money market are central banks‚ commercial banks‚ acceptance houses‚ non bank financial institutions‚ bill brokers. Important institutions of the capital market are stock exchanges
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INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MARKETS 1. INTRODUCTION This section begins the study of the international financial system by exploring the structure of the international financial markets. The two interrelated systems that comprise the international financial markets are the international capital market and the foreign exchange market. 2. INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL MARKET A capital market is a system that allocates financial resources in the form of debt and equity according to their most
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I. Introduction: The development of a modern society depends to a large extent on the nature and standard of higher education. Thus the role of higher education is to prepare competent‚ knowledgeable and far-sighted people for assuming various higher responsibilities. The growing importance of knowledge in the modern world can hardly be overemphasized‚ especially in the era of globalization and in a global environment which is fiercely competitive. Particularly‚ higher education has enormous
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place with the combination of factors of production called as land‚ labor‚ capital and organization. In modern economics‚ enterprise has come to occupy a very important role in production so as to deal with that on a separate footing as an agent of production. Production‚ according to Hicks‚ is "any activity directed to the satisfaction of other people’s wants through exchange". Production in economics means creation of economic utilities‚ as man cannot produce matter. He can only work upon matter so
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Assess the view that making an oligopolistic market more contestable is the best way to improve the efficiency of that market. The theory of perfectly contestable markets was presented as a generalization of the theory of perfectly competitive markets and was presented as providing guidelines for the conduct of regulation‚ namely to allow freedom of entry and exit and to ensure equal access of competitors. An oligopolistic market is a particular market that is controlled by a small number of firms
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FINANCIAL MARKETS & INSTITUTIONS ASSIGNMENT 1. Explain how interest rates decline following major Fed purchases of mortgage-backed securities. The FED implements quantitative easing by buying financial assets of longer maturity‚ e.g.‚ mortgage-backed securities‚ from commercial banks and other private institutions in order to inject a pre-determined quantity of money into the economy. This is a means of stimulating the economy and lowering longer-term interest rates further out on the yield
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