সোমবার, ১২ আগস্ট, ২০১৩

What is capital market?

Capital Market: Capital market is a market in which long term securities like shares, debentures and other financial instruments are traded or exchanged. It is used mainly for chennelising savings of various sectors and common people in the productive uses, otherwise the savings of the people would have been diverted to unproductive channels. Thus the capital market accelerated the savings-investment process by providing the savers with an investment opportunity and the entrepreneurs with the capital required by them to finance their business operations. Capital market is a wide term used to comprise all operations in the new issues and stock market. New issues made by the companies constitute the prime market, while the existing securities relates to the secondary market. In Bangladesh, there are only two Security market. These are Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) established in 1954 and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) established in 1995. Capital market again to types:

                                Primary market: It is the market for new issue securities. This is done through initial public offering (IPO) after obtaining permission from Security & Exchange Commission (SEC) and the involvement of intermediaries such as broker, merchant bankers and other financial institutions.

                                Secondary market: It is the market for trading existing securities after they have been created in the primary market. Shares, Bonds, Mutual funds are trading in DSE and CSE are called secondary market. It consists of the followings:

·         The public who are buyers and sellers of securities
·         Brokers (members of DSE and CSE)
·      The Stock exchanges where the trading takes place

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