This page will concentrate on the City of London and financial markets. This will look at macro movements in share prices, bonds and other markets known as derivatives. The city is increasingly dominated by larger businesses providing a generic range of financial services. At the same time many new and smaller companies are emerging to service specialist areas of financial expertise and trading. The former category includes giant corporations such as
HSBC and
BNP Paribas. The latter category includes
futures and options specialists such as RJ O'Brien.
The major financial markets include:
- Shares
- Bonds
- Loans - Short-term, medium-term, long-term
- Currencies - Foreign Exchange
- Commodities - Metals, Agricultural products, Oil and Gas
- Derivatives - A market in something whose value is derived from something else
