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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.

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 currency (from, "in circulation", from) in the most specific use of the word refers to money in any form when in actual use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins.

A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money (monetary units) in common use, especially in a nation.

Under this definition, US dollars, British pounds, Australian dollars, and European euros are examples of currency.

These various currencies are recognized stores of value and are traded between nations in foreign exchange markets, which determine the relative values of the different currencies.

Currencies in this sense are defined by governments, and each type has limited boundaries of acceptance.

In finance, a futures contract (more colloquially, futures) is a standardized forward contract which can be easily traded between parties other than the two initial parties to the contract.

The parties initially agree to buy and sell an asset for a price agreed upon today (the forward price), with delivery and payment occurring at a future point, the delivery date.

Because it is a function of an underlying asset, a futures contract is a derivative product.

A calender is a series of hard pressure rollers used to form or smooth a sheet of material such as paper or plastic film.

In a principal paper application, the calender is located at the end of a papermaking process (on-line).

Those that are used separately from the process (off-line) are also called supercalenders.

The purpose of a calender is to make the paper smooth and glossy for printing and writing, as well as of a consistent thickness for capacitors that use paper as their dielectric membrane.