Finance glossary
Secondary Market
Definition
Where investors trade existing securities among themselves.
The secondary market is where previously issued securities change hands between investors, such as the stock exchanges. The issuing company gets no new money from these trades. This market provides the liquidity and price discovery that make the primary market viable.
In a sentence
Once the shares were issued, investors traded them among themselves on the secondary market.
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