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secondary market

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noun

Stock Exchange.
  1. the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.


Example Sentences

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“You can look at how tickets sell and what the prices are. You look at primary and secondary market and you can see where their demand is.”

From Los Angeles Times

“Now it’s the stock market that drives the economy, and not because the stock market has reclaimed its historical role in financing capital expenditures, but rather its evolution into a secondary market for speculation and household wealth creation.”

From Barron's

“Now it’s the stock market that drives the economy, and not because the stock market has reclaimed its historical role in financing capital expenditures, but rather its evolution into a secondary market for speculation and household wealth creation.”

From Barron's

One cannot simply look up a price quote for an idiosyncratic loan for which there is no secondary market.

From MarketWatch

A recent report from advisory firm Campbell Lutyens found that only 38% of investors surveyed for the report are active in private-credit secondaries despite the fact that growth of such deals continues to outpace that of the broader secondary market.

From The Wall Street Journal