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The Markets: Procedures and Control

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The Capital Market: its Nature and Significance

Part of the book series: Studies in Finance and Accounting

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Abstract

The City of London is an important market-place for many commodities, including money — hence its role as an international financial centre. There are several related financial markets. The capital market is usually described as that dealing in longer-term funds, and the money market in shorter-term funds.

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Further Reading

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  • Jack Revell, Changes in British Banking — the Growth of a Secondary Banking System Hill, Samuel Occasional Paper No. 3 (1968).

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  • Richard Spiegelberg, The City — Power Without Accountability (London: Blond & Briggs, 1973).

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  • City Capital Markets Committee, Supervision of the Securities Market, Answers to questions contained in the Inquiry of the Department of Trade (June 1974).

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  • Labour Party Green Paper, The Community and the Company, Working Group of the Labour Party Industrial Policy Sub-Committee (1974).

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  • ‘London Money Markets’, Barclays Review (November 1972).

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  • ‘The Eurocurrency Markets’, Barclays Review (February 1976).

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  • P. K. Woolley, ‘The Economics of the U.K. Stock Exchange’, Moor gate and Wall Street Review (Spring 1974).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Brighton Polytechnic, UK

    Kenneth Midgley B.A., B.Sc.(Econ.), Ph.D., F.C.I.S. (Principal Lecturer in Finance)

  2. Portsmouth Management Centre, Portsmouth Polytechnic, UK

    Ronald Burns M.Phil., A.C.C.A. (Senior Lecturer in Business Studies)

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  1. Kenneth Midgley B.A., B.Sc.(Econ.), Ph.D., F.C.I.S.
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  2. Ronald Burns M.Phil., A.C.C.A.
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© 1977 Kenneth Midgley and Ronald Burns

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Midgley, K., Burns, R. (1977). The Markets: Procedures and Control. In: The Capital Market: its Nature and Significance. Studies in Finance and Accounting. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15755-6_5

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