Market activities / trading
Buying and selling of financial instruments Financial instruments Financial instruments include financial securities and financial contracts. such as shares, futures Futures A futures contract is a standardized advance commitment, negotiated on an organized futures market, to deliver a specified quantity of a precisely defined underlying asset at a specified time – the ‘delivery date’ – and place. Futures contracts are the most widely traded financial instruments in the world. , derivatives Derivatives A family of financial products that includes mainly options, futures, swaps and their combinations, all related to other assets (shares, bonds, raw materials and commodities, interest rates, indices, etc.) from which they are by nature inseparable—options on shares, futures contracts on an index, etc. Their value depends on and is derived from (thus the name) that of these other assets. There are derivatives involving a firm commitment (currency futures, interest-rate or exchange swaps) and derivatives involving a conditional commitment (options, warrants, etc.). , options, and warrants conducted in the hope of making a short-term profit Profit The positive gain yielded from a company’s activity. Net profit is profit after tax. Distributable profit is the part of the net profit which can be distributed to the shareholders. .
- ABS / Asset backed security
- Asset
- Balance of payments
- Balance
- Bank for International Settlements / BIS
- Banker’s guarantee
- Bond market
- Bond
- CDO / Collateralized Debt Obligations
- CDS / Credit Default Swaps
- Central Bank
- CFTC / Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Chicago Boys
- CLO / Collateralized Loan Obligation
- CMBS / Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities
- Collateral
- Commodities
- Common goods
- Corporate bonds
- Credit derivative
- Debt refinancing
- Debt rescheduling
- Debt service
- Debt stock
- Deposit or commercial bank
- Derivatives
- Devaluation
- EBA / European Banking Authority
- ECB / European Central Bank
- Emergency Liquidity Assistance / ELA
- Equity
- ESM / European Stability Mechanism
- EURIBOR / Euro Interbank Offered Rate
- Export Credit Agency
- FED / Federal Reserve
- Financial contracts
- Financial instruments
- Financial market
- Financial proceeds
- Financial securities
- Food crops
- FSB / Financial Stability Board
- Futures market
- Futures
- G20
- G8
- GDP / Gross Domestic Product
- Genetically Modified Organisms / GMO
- Goodwill
- Government debt
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