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Financial Markets

Place where we (economic agents: families, companies and State) and financial institutions, offer or demand money to meet our needs for savings, investment, consumption, etc.

They can be classified according to different criteria:

type of asset or financial instrument that is exchanged:

Money or other financial assets are exchanged with short-term maturity (less than one year) and high liquidity (easy to convert into money), generally with a term of less than one year.

Monetary Market:

Capital Markets:

Financial assets (assets or rights) are negotiated with a maturity in the middle (between 2 and 4 years) and long term (5 or more years), basic for the realization of certain investment processes.

Stock Markets

They provide financing by issuing shares and allowing the exchange of these by others among economic agents.

Bond Markets

They provide financing through the issuance of bonds and allow the exchange of these.

Bond Markets