financial instrument

financial instrument
A paper investment that confers a claim or a potential claim to income. In the widest sense of the term, there are many types of financial instruments, including *common stock and *bonds. They can be issued by corporations and governments, and they may or may not be traded. However, some users of the term reserve it only for traded bonds.

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