Category: Markets
Consumer Market And Consumer Market Types
Consumer Markets of today are experiencing rapid changes and is flooded with new opportunities and new challenges. The significant changes in the consumers’ buying behavior, urbanized lifestyle and growth of service sector are the main reasons behind the changed scenario in the consumer market.
The Consumer Market can be classified into following type of markets:
• Consumer Products Market
Types of Financial Market
Financial Market is the market where financial securities like stocks and bonds and commodities like valuable metals are exchanged at efficient market prices. Here, by efficient market prices we mean the unbiased price that reflects belief at collective speculation of all investors about the future prospect. The trading of stocks and bonds in the Financial Market can take place directly between buyers and sellers or by the medium of Stock Exchange. Financial Markets can be domestic or international.
Different Types of Financial Markets
New Economy
The New Economy is a global business shift from industrial and manufacturing-based commerce to service and asset-based industries. Much of the New Economy has been fueled by exponential technological advancements and growth. It has been further accelerated by globalization and a worldwide convergence of consumption habits and tastes.
Bond Market Types
Different kinds of bonds like Govt. bonds, corporate bonds, municipal bonds, mortgage backed or asset backed bonds and others are traded in the Bond Market. The main participants of Bond Market are the individuals, govt. and the institutional investors. As bonds lack in liquidity unlike stocks, major amount of existing stocks of an economy generally lie in the hands of institutions like mutual funds, pension funds and banks.
