Money and credit - Ivanov V.М.

7.2. The main components of the money market

The money market has a complex functioning mechanism. Its subjects are:

• commercial banks;

• accounting houses;

• broker and dealer companies.

The object of purchase and sale on the money market is temporarily free cash.

Instruments of the money market are commercial bills, certificates of deposit, bank acceptances, etc.

The price of "goods" (money), which is sold and bought on the market, is the loan interest. The level of interest in the money market is the basis for determining the interest on the entire loan capital market. From the economic point of view, the interconnection of such concepts occurs in the money market:

• money supply;

• income;

• rate of interest.

The main borrowers: firms, credit and financial institutions, the state, the population.