The financial market can be divided according to the subject matter: money market, capital market, foreign exchange market, financial derivatives market, insurance market, gold market and other investment product markets.
Money market
Money market, also known as "short-term financial market" and "short-term capital market", refers to the financial market with a financing period of one year or less. The money market mainly includes the interbank lending market, bill market, repurchase agreement market, money market funds, large transferable time deposit certificate market, short-term government bond market and bank acceptance bill market, etc.
Capital Market
Capital market, also known as "long-term financial market" and "long-term capital market", refers to a place for various fund lending and securities trading with a term of more than one year. The capital market mainly includes the stock market, bond market and fund market. In addition, medium and long-term loans also fall within the business scope of the capital market.
Foreign exchange market
The foreign exchange market refers to the market for the trading of securities such as foreign currencies and bills denominated in foreign currencies. In order to prevent the negative impact of abnormal factors on the foreign exchange market and try to avoid the impact of abnormal exchange rate fluctuations on the national economy, the government must intervene in the foreign exchange market.
Foreign exchange is the balance of payments held by monetary administrations (central banks, monetary management agencies, foreign exchange stabilization funds and the Ministry of Finance) in the form of bank deposits, Treasury bills, long-term and short-term government securities, etc. Debt that can be used in case of deficit.
Financial derivatives market
Financial derivatives refer to financial instruments derived from traditional financial products (currency, bonds, stocks, etc.) characterized by leverage or credit transactions. , such as futures, options, swaps and forwards, etc. my country's commodity futures trading volume has ranked first in the world for many years, and the Shanghai Futures Exchange has become the world's largest ferrous metal futures market and the second largest non-ferrous metal futures market
Insurance market
The insurance market refers to the sum of the exchange relationships of insurance commodities, or the sum of the supply and demand relationships of insurance commodities. It can be either a fixed trading place, such as an insurance exchange, or the sum of all exchange relationships that realize the transfer of insurance commodities.
Gold Market
The gold market refers to the financial market that specializes in gold trading. Currently, the world's most important gold markets are in London, Zurich, New York, Chicago, Hong Kong, China and other places.