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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Bain’s Matt Harris On Skating To Where The B2B Innovation Puck’s Headed
Bain’s Matt Harris On Skating To Where The B2B Innovation Puck’s Headed
October 21, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

Recent weeks have seen headlines in the financial press heralding the death of unicorns — tech companies that are (or were) valued at $1 billion...

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Foreign Investors Spent $60B Buying UK Tech Firms Since Brexit Vote
Foreign Investors Spent $60B Buying UK Tech Firms Since Brexit Vote
October 17, 2019  |  Brexit

Since the Brexit vote three years ago, foreign buyers have announced $60 billion in deals for U.K. tech companies. Data from Bloomberg shows that the...

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Netflix Earnings Soar, But Subscribers Slip As New Streaming Players Spin Up
Netflix Earnings Soar, But Subscribers Slip As New Streaming Players Spin Up
October 16, 2019  |  Earnings

Netflix’s results were somewhat mixed when the streaming giant released its earnings figures Wednesday afternoon (Oct. 16), the market’s response to them was not. Shares...

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Wells Says Today’s Costly Investments Is Tomorrow’s Innovation In Progress
Wells Says Today’s Costly Investments Is Tomorrow’s Innovation In Progress
October 15, 2019  |  Earnings

Wells Fargo managed to a slight beat when it came revenue predictions when it announced earnings earlier today (Oct. 15) — but on the whole,...

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SmileDirectClub Shares Slide On New Consumer Protection Law
SmileDirectClub Shares Slide On New Consumer Protection Law
October 15, 2019  |  Markets

A new California law has sent shares of SmileDirectClub down 12.9 percent on Monday (Oct. 14) and its stock is now down 60 percent since...

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SoftBank To Downshift Vision Fund Strategy Post-Uber, WeWork IPO Flops
SoftBank To Downshift Vision Fund Strategy Post-Uber, WeWork IPO Flops
October 11, 2019  |  Investments

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is reportedly reconfiguring his strategy for investing with his latest Vision Fund due to the struggles of companies like Uber and...

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Robinhood Relaunches Checking Feature With 2 Pct. APY
Robinhood Relaunches Checking Feature With 2 Pct. APY
October 08, 2019  |  Investments

Stock trading app Robinhood, which offers no-fee trading, is relaunching a checking feature called Cash Management after it was previously shelved due to regulatory issues....

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Alphabet-Backed One Medical Preps For IPO
Alphabet-Backed One Medical Preps For IPO
October 08, 2019  |  IPO

Alphabet-backed healthcare chain One Medical has joined forces with JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley for a planned IPO, CNBC reported on Tuesday (Oct. 8). Sources told...

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SoftBank Losses From WeWork, Uber Failed IPOs Top $5B
SoftBank Losses From WeWork, Uber Failed IPOs Top $5B
October 08, 2019  |  Investments

Analysts are starting to weigh in on the mounting damages SoftBank could incur after such mishaps as WeWork and Uber, Bloomberg reported on Monday (Oct....

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