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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ByteDance Explores IPO For Douyin, China’s Version Of TikTok
ByteDance Explores IPO For Douyin, China’s Version Of TikTok
October 26, 2020  |  IPO

Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, could hit the markets as a publicly-traded company under plans being pursued by its parent company, ByteDance, new reports...

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Rocketship Remakes Early Stage Venture Investing
Rocketship Remakes Early Stage Venture Investing
October 26, 2020  |  Investments

Most investors claim to follow the data, which is good investing practice and even better marketing. Besides, no really successful investor is ever going to...

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October 20, 2020  |  Retail

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September 20, 2020  |  Banking

U.S. banks aren’t fooling themselves — they’re likely in for a long stretch of low interest rates putting a burden on their profits, the Financial...

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Veem Ends Funding Round With $31M
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September 16, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Global payments network Veem has closed a funding round with $31 million in new capital, a press release says. Truist Ventures, the corporate venture capital...

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September 15, 2020  |  Markets

Social Capital Hedosophia is looking to raise $500 million for a new blank check company, Bloomberg writes. The vehicle is a partnership between veteran investors...

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September 07, 2020  |  Legal

In an unusually public feud, Citigroup is engaged in a squabble with a creditor over the mistaken $900 million Revlon payments from earlier this year...

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Anchanto Raises $12.14M In Funding Round
Anchanto Raises $12.14M In Funding Round
September 07, 2020  |  Investments

Singaporean Software-as-a-service company Anchanto took home S$16.6 million ($12.14 million USD) in a funding round, according to a report from Business Mirror. The company works...

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Utz And The (Public) Lure Of A Snack SPAC
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August 31, 2020  |  IPO

In the consumer packaged goods space, snack SPACs are showing some teeth. Special purpose acquisition companies – or SPACs, as they are more commonly known...

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