ECN 506 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Capital Market, Money Market, United States Treasury Security

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Lender-savers: are households, business firms, government, and foreigners. Financial markets are critical for producing an efficient allocation of capital, which contributes to higher production. They lend out money to people so that are able afford things in life like a house, or car. Maturity of a debt instrument is the number of years (term) until that instruments expiration date. If its more than a year its considered an intermediate-term. Equities are like common stocks that which are claims to share in the net income. Dividends are long term securities because they have no maturity date. Owning stock is like having a portion of the firm. The only downfall is that the company must pay its debt-holders first before paying stock holders. Primary markets: is a financial market that when you issue new security it is sold by corporations and government agency borrowing the funds. Secondary markets: is a financial market in which securities that have been already issued are sold.

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