Financial markets- Participants and types

Trading in very short-term debt investments.

In whole-sale, it means large-volume trades between institutions and traders.

In retail, it includes money market mutual funds bought by individual investors and money market accounts opened by bank customers.

The money market is usually very safe but with relatively low profit.

The market that companies and governments use to make investors get into debts, such as investment-grade bonds, junk bonds, and short-term commercial paper.

Sometimes it is called the debt market.

It includes debt offerings, such as notes and securitized obligations and other typers.

The equity capital market (ECM): where financial institutions help companies get equity capital and where stocks are traded.

It's the primary market for private placements, initial public offerings (IPOs), and warrants; and the secondary market, where shares are sold, as well as other listed securities are traded.