Encyclopedia > Financial instruments

Article Content

Financial instruments

Financial instruments package financial capital in readily tradeable forms - they do not exist outside the context of the financial markets[?]. Their diversity of forms mirrors the diversity of risk that they manage.

Typical instruments:

stocks
bonds
swaps
options
futures
complex derivatives (of the above)

(this is a stub).

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Argentine cuisine

... de papas), and a number of meat dishes (carne asado, milanesa, lomo, empanadas) Traditional Argentine foods include: Milanesa[?] Empanadas Asado[?] Locro[?] The ...