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A market for a financial instrument, in which buyers and sellers find each other and create or exchange financial assets. Sometimes these are organized in a particular place and/or institution, but often they exist more broadly through communication among dispersed buyers and sellers, including banks, over long distances.
Industry:Economy
A sudden loss of confidence in the financial system, causing widespread attempts to sell stocks and bonds and withdraw funds from banks, often stimulated by a large financial entity (speculator, bank, etc. ) making a large loss and defaulting on commitments.
Industry:Economy
A deficit in the government budget of a country. Thus the budget deficit.
Industry:Economy
A regime in which a country's exchange rate is allowed to fluctuate freely and be determined without intervention in the exchange market by the government or central bank.
Industry:Economy
A flow, or flow variable, is an economic magnitude describing behavior that occurs over time and is therefore meaningful only relative to the unit of time. Examples are the value of exports (dollars per year), demand for foreign exchange (euros per day), and migration (persons per month). Contrasts with a stock.
Industry:Economy
A UN body whose purpose is to "defeat hunger" throughout the world mostly by sharing information and expertise.
Industry:Economy
1. The reliable availability of a sufficient quantity and quality of nutritious food for a population. 2. As used by some NGOs, the term also requires that localities or regions be self sufficient, in apparent ignorance of the impossibility of combining this with the first definition.
Industry:Economy
A binding commitment to buy or sell currency on a forward market.
Industry:Economy
A market for exchange of currencies in the future. Participants in a forward market enter into a contract to exchange currencies, not today, but at a specified date in the future, typically 30, 60, or 90 days from now, and at a price (forward exchange rate) that is agreed upon today.
Industry:Economy
Also called the forward exchange rate, this is the exchange rate on a forward market transaction.
Industry:Economy
