Primary market

Primary market
The primary market for securities is their initial issue: the sale of securities by issuers to investors as opposed to trading by investors in the secondary market.

Primary Market
The market in which the first buyer of a newly issued security buys its shares. All subsequent trading of these securities is done in the secondary market.

PRIMARY MARKET
Financial market is usually divided into two sub-markets:
- primary market (i.e., where the issue of financial instruments takes place)
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primary market area
newspaper or related publication's major area of editorial and advertising coverage. For example, XYZ newspaper may do a story on the XYZ fire department because it is situated in its primary market area.

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market for securities offered to investors by issuer the part of the market on which securities are first offered to investors by the issuer.

Here are two possible definitions of primary market:
The London stockmarket could be described as a primary market.

Primary Market
The primary market is the part of the capital market which facilitates the issuance of new securities. Companies and other institutions can raise capital by issuing stocks or bonds.

Primary Market The segment of FINANCIAL MARKETS in which securities are originated.

Primary Market
The function of a stock exchange in bringing securities to the market for the first time. Money is raised either for the owners before flotation of the company or to fund future growth.

PRIMARY MARKET " The market for new issues or underwritings. (vs. Secondary Market). See: New Issues.

Primary Market: A financial market where new issues of security are offered.

Primary market
The market in which securities are sold at the time they are first issued. (As opposed to secondary market).
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Primary Market: The market for raising the new Money.
Prime Rate. The interest rate at which banks lend to their best customers.
Primary Distribution. A new security issue, or one that is made available to investors for the first time.

Primary Market
(1) For producers, their major purchaser of commodities; (2) in commercial marketing channels, an important center at which spot commodities are concentrated for shipment to terminal markets; and (3) to processors, ...

Primary market:
A market for newly issued securities See also Secondary market.
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Primary Market
Market where debt and equity securities are sold by an issuing
company to investors to raise capital for its operations
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Primary market
Where a newly issued security is first offered. All subsequent trading of this security occurs is done in the secondary market.
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primary market
The issuance (sale) of new securities. As distinguished from the secondary market.
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Primary Market
The first time a company's shares are sold, they are sold into the primary market. This is the market that is made up of the first owners of the shares. Whenever the shares are resold, this is called the secondary market.

Primary Market
Market for new issues of securities (initial public Offerings, etc.), where companies issue shares directly to shareholders. See Secondary market
Principal
The face value of a bond.

Primary market
If you buy stocks or bonds when they are initially offered for sale, and the money you spend goes to the issuer, you are buying in the primary market.

Primary Market
The "primary market" is the market in which new, previously unissued securities are traded. After initial issue, existing securities are then traded in the "secondary market."
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Primary Market (See New Issue Market)
The market on which newly issued securities are sold. This includes the auction market for government bonds and the underwriting period for bonds which an underwriter purchases for resale to investors.

Primary Market Market for new issues of securities as distinguished from the secondary market, where previously issued securities are bought and sold. A market is primary if the proceeds of sales go to the issuer of the securities sold.

primary market: A market for the first buyer of a newly issued security.
prime rate: The base rate used on high-grade corporate loans by major rates, serving as an index for many types of loans.
principal: The original amount of a loan.

Primary Market
The market for new issues of securities. The proceeds of the sale of securities in a primary market go directly to the company issuing the securities. See also Secondary Market.
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Primary Market is where firms sell new financial assets typically with the assistance of an investment banker.
Prime Rate The interest rate that banks charge their "best" clients, , i.e., those with the lowest possibility of default.

Primary market: The buying and selling of new issues. Resales are handled in the secondary markets.
Prime rate: The interest rate banks charge their best customers.

Primary market
Market for " initial public offerings, i.e. the first sale of new securities. The amount invested goes directly to the company. Opposite: " Secondary market.
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Primary market
The first buyer of a newly issued security buys that security in the primary market. All subsequent trading of those securities is done in the secondary market.

Primary Market
The market where new securities are issued (usually through a brokerage firm). For comparison, see Secondary Market.
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Primary market
If you buy stocks, bonds, futures contracts, or options when they are initially offered for sale, and the money you spend goes to the issuer, you are buying in the primary market.

Primary market
Market for new issues of securities that are offered to investors for the first time. Capital users such as corporations and governments draw on the primary market for capital.

The primary market for Treasuries is conducted as a Dutch auction open to the public and run by the Treasury. About 150 auctions are held a year. Most are for bills. Notes or bonds are auctioned less frequently.

The primary market is the issuer market.
Pro Forma Accounts
The object of pro-forma accounts is to present the company's accounts while considering the disposals completed within the fiscal year, as if they were registered in the last fiscal year.

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The Primary Market, which could more descriptively be called the Money Raising Market, ...

A type of primary market offering in which the securities being issued are available to anyone who has the ability to purchase them.

Also know as the 'Primary Market', this is the period of time in which a company trades directly with the investor to open up a market for a stock.
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Primary Offering or Primary MarketExpand/Collapse
The original sale of any new issue of a company's securities.
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Secondary market The market in which securities are traded after they are initially offered in the primary market. Most trading occurs in the secondary market.

Primary market Market for the initial sale of a corporation's securities to the underwriting community. Profits from the primary market go to the company issuing the securities. Later sales to investors are made in the secondary market.

Original issues are sold in the primary market; subsequent sales take place in the secondary market.

Initial public offerings (IPOs) or private offerings of securities are referred to as primary market offerings, but once those securities are traded a second time they become part of the aftermarket.

A primary dealer is a firm authorised by a central bank to deal in the primary market for government securities.

Capital markets may be classified as primary markets and secondary markets. In primary markets, new stock or bond issues are sold to investors via a mechanism known as underwriting.

BONDS and SHARES are first sold in the primary market, for instance, through an initial public offering. After that, their new owners often sell them in the secondary market.

A form of stale price arbitrage where the pricing discrepencies are due to the primary markets for the underlying securities being closed at the times that the fund is traded.

DPMs - Are Designated Primary Market Makers.
DRIP or DRIPS - Refer to Dividend Reinvestment Programs whereby an investor acquires additional shares of the corporation by having the dividends automatically reinvested.

The market where securities are traded after they are initially offered in the primary market. Most trading is done in the secondary market. The New York Stock Exchange, as well as all other stock exchanges, the bond markets, etc.

Regional Bank
A bank with a primary market in a regional or metropolitan area, but takes deposits from throughout the province in which it is located. In Canada it is generally called a Credit Union.

See also: Flotation Cost, IPO, Primary Market, Public Offering Price, Takedown, Underwriting
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DPMS - Are Designated Primary Market Makers.
DPO - Days Payables Outstanding.
DPS - see DIVIDENDS PER SHARE.

If a company is breaking itself up through a divestiture, it may be because the divested asset is worth more as a separate entity, or because divesting allows the company to redirect its focus to a primary market.

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It is also a market for investors who can buy and sell shares at any time, without directly affecting the entities in which they are buying the shares (i.e., a secondary market).

The first buyer of a newly issued security buys that security in the primary market. All subsequent trading of those securities is done in the secondary market.
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The second largest stock exchange in the United States, located in New York City. The primary marketplace in the U.S. for equities, bonds, options and derivatives securities.
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What you can find: There are auction houses that specialize in liquidation, but what's available depends on what's selling (or rather what isn't selling) in primary markets.

The treasury securities are traded through an auction process in the primary market. Tenders are received by TAAPS from brokers wishing to purchase marketable securities.

The Chicago Board of Trade has also created a separate exchange, CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange) which trades in a number of options but is best known as the primary marketplace for options based on market indices such as the Dow Jones.

See also: Banks, Values, Capital markets, Capital structure, Expected return