Question
Explain any three functions of financial market.

Answer

Functions of financial Market:
  1. Mobilisation of Funds: It facilities the transfer of saving from the savers to investors. It provides savers the choice of different investments and thus helps to channelize surplus funds into the most productive use.
  2. Facilitate Price Discovery (Price determination): There are two forces in the determination of price of commodity: (i) Demand; and (ii) Supply. In the financial market, the households are supplier of funds and business firms represent the demand. The interaction between them helps to establish a price of the financial asset which is being traded in that particular market.
  3. Provides Liquidity to Financial Assets: It provides a ready market for buying and selling of securities.
  4. Reduce the cost of transaction: Financial markets acts as a meeting point of landers/investors and borrowers. It helps to save time, effort and money in searching for the counter party.

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