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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WeWork’s Fizzle Bodes Ill For IPOs
WeWork’s Fizzle Bodes Ill For IPOs
October 04, 2019  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

From the ashes of WeWork’s failed IPO … more ashes? Perhaps so, at least for the traditional IPO model. Other money-losing firms are seeing their...

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New Instagram App Causes Snap Shares To Slide
New Instagram App Causes Snap Shares To Slide
October 04, 2019  |  Markets

The launch of a new Instagram app caused shares in the owner of Snapchat to fall more than 7 percent–its lowest level in almost four...

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WeWork Officially Shelves IPO
WeWork Officially Shelves IPO
September 30, 2019  |  IPO

WeWork’s initial public offering (IPO) is suspended and the company is pulling out of its S-1 filing, CNBC reported on Monday (Sept. 30). The office-sharing...

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SpiceJet To Sell Cargo Business Shares In IPO
SpiceJet To Sell Cargo Business Shares In IPO
September 26, 2019  |  IPO

Indian budget carrier SpiceJet will sell shares in its cargo division in an initial public offering (IPO). SpiceXpress could be listed on a stock exchange...

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Lessons Learned — Or Not — From WeWork’s Whirlwind
Lessons Learned — Or Not — From WeWork’s Whirlwind
September 25, 2019  |  Business

Is this the week of the CEO step-down? WeWork, Juul and eBay have all announced the departures of the chiefs at their respective helms. Every...

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Futures May Not Be The Way Of Crypto’s Future
Futures May Not Be The Way Of Crypto’s Future
September 24, 2019  |  Cryptocurrency

For bitcoin, and perhaps cryptocurrencies in general, does the future lie in … futures? As reported this week, the first bitcoin futures contracts that in...

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Stripe’s Valuation And The Value Of Real Disruption
Stripe’s Valuation And The Value Of Real Disruption
September 20, 2019  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the WeWork IPO – rather, the shelving of that IPO, at least for now – heralds the end of...

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New iPhone Launch Pushes Apple Past $1T Market Cap
New iPhone Launch Pushes Apple Past $1T Market Cap
September 11, 2019  |  What's Hot

Apple has reached a rare milestone for a second time. The company’s stock went up 3 percent during Wednesday’s (Sept. 11) trading and gave the...

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WeWork Moves Forward On IPO, Despite SoftBank’s Concerns
WeWork Moves Forward On IPO, Despite SoftBank’s Concerns
September 11, 2019  |  IPO

WeWork, an office-sharing startup, is reportedly moving ahead with plans to go public despite a massive drop in valuation, and one of its biggest investors...

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