Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• SECONDARY MARKET
  
  When stocks and bonds are bought and sold after the date they are first issued, they trade on what's known as the secondary market. The issuer, or company that offers the stock or bond, gets no proceeds from these secondary trades, as it does when it issues these securities the first time in the primary market. In fact, most securities trading occurs in the secondary market.
  
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