Issuing marketable debt and equity securities is not the primary way
in which businesses finance their operations.
Figure 8-1 shows that
bonds are a more important source of financing than stocks in Canada (15%
versus 12%). However, stocks and bonds combined (27%), which make up the
total share of marketable securities, still supply less than one-third of the
external funds corporations need to finance their activities. The fact that issu-
ing marketable securities is not the most important source of financing is true
elsewhere in the world as well. Indeed, as we see in Figure 8-1, other coun-
tries (except the United States) have a much smaller share of external financ-
ing supplied by marketable securities than Canada. Why don t businesses use
marketable securities more extensively to finance their activities?
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