What Is Investing?

What Is Investing? Investing is a way to increase the amount of money you have by putting it into financial products. These include bank accounts, money market accounts, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, precious metals and property. Anything that potentially increases in value can be an investment.

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Red-Hot IPO Market Draws Payments Firms, FinTechs
Red-Hot IPO Market Draws Payments Firms, FinTechs
February 28, 2021  |  IPO

By any measure, initial public offerings (IPOs) were hot last year, buoyed in part by the embrace by retail investors of special purpose acquisition companies...

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Roblox Gaming Platform Pursues Older Users; Readies For Direct Listing
Roblox Gaming Platform Pursues Older Users; Readies For Direct Listing
February 26, 2021  |  IPO

Digital entertainment platform Roblox is going after adult users as it readies to go public via a direct offering scheduled for March 10, CNBC reported...

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Report: Robinhood In Talks To Pay Financial Penalty
Report: Robinhood In Talks To Pay Financial Penalty
February 26, 2021  |  Markets

To settle probes into its options trading processes and the downtime that its equity trading app faced last year, Robinhood Markets Inc. is in discussions...

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Airbnb Checks In With $3.9 Billion Loss; Predicts Travel Industry Comeback
Airbnb Checks In With $3.9 Billion Loss; Predicts Travel Industry Comeback
February 25, 2021  |  Earnings

Reflecting the travel industry’s pandemic-led decline, Airbnb held its first earnings call as a public company on Thursday (Feb. 25) reporting a respectable revenue line,...

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Sharks Start To Circle Robinhood
Sharks Start To Circle Robinhood
February 24, 2021  |  Investments

From all corners of finance and beyond, the critics are circling Robinhood — and is it possible that Robinhood’s (current) business model is circling the...

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Square Doubles Down On Bitcoin; Generates $1.7 Billion In Crypto Revenue
Square Doubles Down On Bitcoin; Generates $1.7 Billion In Crypto Revenue
February 23, 2021  |  Earnings

At Square, it’s getting hard to separate bitcoin from dollars. The company’s fourth-quarter financials reported on Tuesday (Feb. 23) were overshadowed by details about the...

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Bitcoin Smashes New Records With Valuation Topping $1 Trillion
Bitcoin Smashes New Records With Valuation Topping $1 Trillion
February 19, 2021  |  Cryptocurrency

The cryptocurrency craze has topped new records, with bitcoin’s market valuation surpassing $1 trillion, according to a CNBC report on Friday (Feb. 19). Bitcoin traded...

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Singapore May List Blank-Check Companies, Or SPACs, This Year
Singapore May List Blank-Check Companies, Or SPACs, This Year
February 18, 2021  |  IPO

The Singapore Exchange, a major stock market in Asia, has reportedly been considering the idea of listing blank-check companies. Now, CEO Loh Boon Chye said...

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Coupang’s S-1 Spotlights Logistics Challenges In eCommerce IPOs
Coupang’s S-1 Spotlights Logistics Challenges In eCommerce IPOs
February 18, 2021  |  IPO

The great digital shift has sparked a lot of excitement on Wall Street. And a growing number of firms across the globe are joining the...

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