DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CAPITAL MARKET & MONEY MARKET

Capital Market

  • Provides long term finance
  • Finance may be used for acquiring fixed assets or for financing hard core working capital requirements
  • Lending and borrowing are for real business purpose, diversification, expansion, modernisation, mechani- sation programmes, etc.
  • Underwriting may be insisted and often comes to the picture
  • Capital market instruments are Government Securities, Industrial Securities and Long Term Loans
  • Capital market instruments need not be liquid
  • Capital market instruments do have risks

Money Market

  • Provides short term finance
  • Finance is mainly used for financing working capital requirements
  • Lending and borrowing facilitate liquidity position of the individual or organisation
  • Underwriting usually does not come to the picture
  • Usual money market instruments are Treasury Bills, Certificate of Deposits, Commercial Paper and Repos
  • Money-market instruments are highly liquid
  • Money market instruments carry negligible risk

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