Setting the price of a good or security so that the ex ante quantities supplied and demanded are equal. If the price does not equate ex ante supply and demand, then either market participants' plans cannot be carried out, or there must be intervention by a market-maker or a government body to provide extra goods or securities if demand exceeds supply, or to take goods or securities off the market if supply exceeds demand.

• Financial Intermediaries, Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association
• financial intermediary
• financial markets
• financial ratios
• financial repression
• financial sector
• financial security
• Financial Services Act
• Financial Times Actuaries All-Share Index
• Financial Times Actuaries Share Indexes
• Financial Times Industrial Ordinary Share Index
• Financial Times Share Indexes
• Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100 Share Index
• financial year
• financing, official
• fine tuning
• firm
• firm-specific human capital
• first-best
• first-degree price discrimination
• first derivative
• first-in, first-out
• first-mover advantage
• first-order conditions
• FIS