Capital markets facilitate raising capital and provide platforms for buying and selling investments. They include stock, bond, and currency markets, distinguishing them from just asset trading spaces.

Money markets deal with short-term debt instruments for quick liquidity, while capital markets focus on long-term investments such as stocks and bonds to generate growth over time. When looking to ...

Financial markets depth and GDP growth are now strongly correlated. Indeed, the expansion of the financial services sector in the Gulf is a key component of GDP growth itself, underpinning HSBC’s 2025 ...

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 01: Federal Reserve Bank Chair Jerome Powell announces that interest rates will remain unchanged during a news conference at the bank's William McChesney Martin building on May 01 ...

S Ramesh, MD & CEO of Kotak Investment Banking, said many new-age companies are now approaching public markets at a more ...

Throughout 2025, ZXCM expanded its market footprint, strengthened its internal systems, and invested in service quality ...

Hong Kong's securities watchdog has fined Saxo Capital Markets HK HK$4 million ($513,663.45) over mis-selling virtual asset products for more than four years. SCMHK has been found selling virtual ...

The current steady decline in interest rates is meaningful, since over the last few years, the private equity market has been ...

AI and ML strategies require foresight and planning—they shouldn’t be an afterthought for your organization. Here are four best practices to help capital markets adopt and benefit from modern AI/ML ...

Market-making firms in the $13 trillion exchange-traded fund industry may come under strain amid a potential wave of new listings in 2026, with US regulators poised to allow asset managers to offer ...

Laurie Sepulveda is a MarketWatch Guides team senior writer who specializes in writing about insurance, investing, personal loans, home equity loans, mortgages and banking. She lives in North Carolina ...