capital market
noun[C]
ukusFINANCE,ECONOMICS
thesystemoffinancialorganizationsfrom whichcompaniesandgovernmentsraisemoneysellingstocks,bonds, etc. toinvestors:
domestic/global/international capital marketsLong-terminterestrates, such as those onmortgages, aredeterminedbyglobalcapitalmarkets.
There has been aperiodofliquidityin thecapitalmarket.
Thebondswill besoldon thecapitalmarket.
In the early 1990s thecapitalmarketreceivedatremendousboostfrompoliciesofderegulationandliberalization.