Whois & Analysis for hotforex.com

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 financial market is a market in which people trade financial securities, commodities, and other fungible items of value at low transaction costs and at prices that reflect supply and demand.

Securities include stocks and bonds, and commodities include precious metals or agricultural products.

In economics, a commodity is a marketable item produced to satisfy wants or needs.

Often the item is fungible.

Economic commodities comprise goods and services.

A stock index or stock market index is a measurement of the value of a section of the stock market.

It is computed from the prices of selected stocks (typically a weighted average).

It is a tool used by investors and financial managers to describe the market, and to compare the return on specific investments.

In finance, a bond is an instrument of indebtedness of the bond issuer to the holders.

The most common types of bonds include municipal bonds and corporate bonds.

It is a debt security, under which the issuer owes the holders a debt and, depending on the terms of the bond, is obliged to pay them interest (the coupon) and/or to repay the principal at a later date, termed the maturity date.

Interest is usually payable at fixed intervals (semiannual, annual, sometimes monthly).

Very often the bond is negotiable, that is, the ownership of the instrument can be transferred in the secondary market.

This means that once the transfer agents at the bank medallion stamp the bond, it is highly liquid on the second market.