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The foreign exchange market (forex, FX, or currency market) is a global decentralized market for the trading of currencies.

This includes all aspects of buying, selling and exchanging currencies at current or determined prices.

In terms of volume of trading, it is by far the largest market in the world, followed by the Credit market.

The main participants in this market are the larger international banks.

Financial centres around the world function as anchors of trading between a wide range of multiple types of buyers and sellers around the clock, with the exception of weekends.

The foreign exchange market does not determine the relative values of different currencies, but sets the current market price of the value of one currency as demanded against another.

A stock market, equity market or share market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers (a loose network of economic transactions, not a physical facility or discrete entity) of stocks (also called shares), which represent ownership claims on businesses; these may include securities listed on a public stock exchange as well as those only traded privately.

Examples of the latter include shares of private companies which are sold to investors through equity crowdfunding platforms.

Stock exchanges list shares of common equity as well as other security types, e.g. corporate bonds and convertible bonds.

A commodity market is a market that trades in primary economic sector rather than manufactured products.

Soft commodities are agricultural products such as wheat, coffee, cocoa and sugar.

Hard commodities are mined, such as gold and oil.

Investors access about 50 major commodity markets worldwide with purely financial transactions increasingly outnumbering physical trades in which goods are delivered.

Futures contracts are the oldest way of investing in commodities.

Futures are secured by physical assets.

Commodity markets can include physical trading and derivatives trading using spot prices, forwards, futures, and options on futures.

Farmers have used a simple form of derivative trading in the commodity market for centuries for price risk management.

An interest rate, is the amount of interest due per period, as a proportion of the amount lent, deposited or borrowed (called the principal sum).

The total interest on an amount lent or borrowed depends on the principal sum, the interest rate, the compounding frequency, and the length of time over which it is lent, deposited or borrowed.

Financial News is a financial newspaper and news website published in London.

It is a weekly newspaper, published by eFinancial News Limited, covering the financial services sector through news, views and extensive people coverage.

Financial News was founded in 1996.