Asset
Anything with value that can be owned or traded: cash, currencies, shares, bonds, gold, property or coins.
In plain English
Anything with value that can be owned or traded: cash, currencies, shares, bonds, gold, property or coins.
An asset is something worth money that someone owns. In markets the word usually means a tradable thing: a currency, a stock, a bond, a barrel of oil, a coin.
Traders often group them into asset classes, because each class reacts to different forces. Currencies hang on interest rates and economies; stocks on profits; commodities on supply and demand.
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