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Money market

The money market, in macroeconomics and international finance, refers to the equilibration of demand for a country's domestic money to its money supply. Both refer to the quantity of money that people in the country hold (a stock), not to the quantity that people both in and out of the country choose to acquire during a period in the exchange market, mostly for the purpose of then using it to buy something else.

Money market

A market in which money and other liquid assets such as bills of exchange and Treasury bills can be lent and borrowed in order to satisfy the short term (from overnight to several months) cash flow requirements of banks and other institutions. Where personal investors have large sums of money to deposit, they can also gain access to the money market via the commercial banks.



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