primary market

primary market definition - finance
The market for new issues of stocks or bonds, when the proceeds from the sale go to the company. Once a stock or bond issue is in the market-place and traded among investors, it is in the secondary market.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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