Markets
The markets in economics refer to mechanisms that allow easy buy and sell, or trade, of financial securities for people. Financial markets have increased and continuously evolved in distinct applications and innovations. The markets are responsible for facilitating financial activities such as raising a capital, transfer of risk, and international trade. The market economy would mean that it relies mainly on the interactions between the sellers and the buyers for allocation of resources.
Toronto Stock Exchange Building
A market, in an economics viewpoint, would simply mean the aggregate of potential buyers and sellers of a particular thing and the transactions between these two. Examples of financial markets are capital markets (either stock or bond markets), commodity markets, money markets, derivatives markets, insurance markets and foreign exchange markets.