Businesses could purchase dividend-paying stocks, blue-chip bonds, or interest-bearing bank certificates of deposits ; they could also purchase other firms in an effort to spice up revenue. The latter creates the link with investment banking and securities buying and selling, as above, in that the capital raised will generically comprise debt, i.e. corporate bonds, and fairness, usually listed shares. Inter-institutional commerce and funding, and fund-management at this scale, is known as “wholesale finance”.
- The human component of worry additionally played an element (the reason a dramatic fall in the inventory market is often known as a “panic”).
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