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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)

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