Which of the following is a primary market transaction? You sell 200 shares of IBM stock on the NYSE through your broker. You buy 200 shares of IBM stock from your brother. The trade is not made through a broker: you just give him cash and he gives you the stock. IBM issues 2,000,000 shares of new stock and sells them to the public through an investment banker. One financial institution buys 200,000 shares of IBM stock from another institution. An investment banker arranges the transaction. IBM sells 2,000,000 shares of treasury stock to its employees when they exercise options that were granted in prior years. Which of the following statements is CORRECT? The most important difference between spot markets versus futures markets is the maturity of the instruments that are traded. Spot market transactions involve securities that have maturities of less than one year whereas futures markets transactions involve securities with maturities greater than one year. Capital market transactions involve only preferred stock or common stock. If General Electric were to issue new stock this year, this would be considered a secondary market transaction since the company already has stock outstanding. Both NASDAQ dealers and specialists" on the NYSE hold inventories of stocks. Money market transactions do not involve securities denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar