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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Activist Shareholder Starboard Urges ACI Worldwide To Put Itself Up For Sale
Activist Shareholder Starboard Urges ACI Worldwide To Put Itself Up For Sale
December 02, 2020  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Activist investor Starboard Value wants payments firm ACI Worldwide to put itself up for sale. Starboard is a significant shareholder with a 9 percent stake in...

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Burger King India Holds IPO To Raise Cash, Pay Down Debt
Burger King India Holds IPO To Raise Cash, Pay Down Debt
December 02, 2020  |  IPO

Burger King India Ltd., the Indian branch of the popular QSR chain, is expected to hold its initial public offering (IPO) from Dec. 2 through...

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OYO CEO Talks IPO, Funding As Hotel Startup Fights To Recover
OYO CEO Talks IPO, Funding As Hotel Startup Fights To Recover
December 01, 2020  |  International

After expansion woes and COVID-19 setbacks, Indian-based OYO – a hotel chain heavily backed by Japan’s SoftBank Group – is on its way back, the...

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Iliad’s Niel Teams Up To Launch Organic Foods SPAC In France
Iliad’s Niel Teams Up To Launch Organic Foods SPAC In France
November 30, 2020  |  Investments

Iliad SA Founder Xavier Niel is teaming up with other investors to raise up to $360 million, or 300 million euros, to launch a blank-check...

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Russia’s Ozon Sees Shares Soar 40 Pct In US IPO, Raising $1B
Russia’s Ozon Sees Shares Soar 40 Pct In US IPO, Raising $1B
November 25, 2020  |  IPO

Shares of Russian eCommerce titan Ozon soared 40 percent in the first few minutes of its American IPO on Tuesday, raising $1 billion. Ozon’s American...

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Marqeta Eyes IPO That Could Value Company At $10B
Marqeta Eyes IPO That Could Value Company At $10B
November 25, 2020  |  IPO

Marqeta, a payments startup backed by Goldman Sachs Group and Visa, is planning to file for an initial public offering (IPO) next year, according to...

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Germany’s DAX-30 Stock Index Tightens Rules After Wirecard Fraud Fiasco
Germany’s DAX-30 Stock Index Tightens Rules After Wirecard Fraud Fiasco
November 24, 2020  |  Stock Index

The implosion of major payments player Wirecard AG amid a multibillion-dollar fraud scandal has spurred an overhaul of Germany’s top stock index. Owner of the...

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Digital Car Insurer Metromile To Go Public Through Merger With INSU II
Digital Car Insurer Metromile To Go Public Through Merger With INSU II
November 24, 2020  |  IPO

Digital auto insurer Metromile plans to go public by merging with publicly traded INSU II (Nasdaq: INAQ), a special purpose acquisition entity sponsored by Cohen...

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Discount eCommerce Platform Wish Files $1B IPO
Discount eCommerce Platform Wish Files $1B IPO
November 20, 2020  |  IPO

Silicon Valley global eCommerce unicorn Wish has filed for a $1 billion initial public offering (IPO) on Nasdaq, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange...

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