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Cash Markets

Cash Markets Glossary Definition

(1) A market that involves the immediate delivery of a security or instrument. Also called a spot market.

(2) A method of purchasing and selling a physical commodity that is accepted and prevalent in the industries using that commodity. Often used to distinguish the term "market" from "futures market."

(3) A market in which transactions for purchase and sale of the physical commodity are made under whatever terms are agreeable to buyer and seller within the limits of the prevailing laws and the rules of market organization.

(4) An organized, self-regulated central market, such as the cash grain section of commodity exchanges that also have futures contract trading, or such as the bond section of a stock exchange.

(5) An over-the-counter type of market, in which buyers, sellers and dealers compete in decentralized locations, possibly under rules of an organized association.

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