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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In China, Bitmain Looks Toward $1B In Funding Amid Crypto Slide
In China, Bitmain Looks Toward $1B In Funding Amid Crypto Slide
September 05, 2018  |  Bitcoin

The headlines swirl around China and cryptos and a crackdown on trading, and even discussing them on social media. But a sanguine attitude seems to...

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SEC Wants Startup Investments To Be Open To Everyone
SEC Wants Startup Investments To Be Open To Everyone
August 31, 2018  |  Investments

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wants to allow individuals to invest in private companies, including in-demand startups. SEC Chairman Jay Clayton said the commission...

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Parsing Buffett/Berkshire’s Paytm Push
Parsing Buffett/Berkshire’s Paytm Push
August 27, 2018  |  Investments

Call it a $285 million shot across the digital payments bow. A new embrace of high tech, and a notable one for a famed investor...

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Today In Data: Investing In A More Efficient Future
Today In Data: Investing In A More Efficient Future
August 24, 2018  |  Today In Data

Efficiency is everything, pretty much in any arena. Because being inefficient is very costly – both in literal dollars and in opportunities lost to forge business relationships. But where...

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Eventbrite Prepares For $200M IPO
Eventbrite Prepares For $200M IPO
August 23, 2018  |  IPO

Event ticketing service Eventbrite has announced its plans to raise up to $200 million in an initial public offering (IPO). According to its prospectus, the...

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Upgrade Is Upgrading The FinTech Lending Experience
Upgrade Is Upgrading The FinTech Lending Experience
August 23, 2018  |  Loans

When Renaud Laplanche launched hist latest lending start up, Upgrade, the venture was both quite similar to and yet quite different from his previous endeavor,...

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Klook CPO Liu Outlines Travel Booking Platform’s Global Expansion
Klook CPO Liu Outlines Travel Booking Platform’s Global Expansion
August 21, 2018  |  Investments

Having $1 billion in bookings and more than 200 destinations globally – those are big numbers, to be sure, but these are not stats gleaned from...

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Trump Wants SEC To Consider Half-Year Earnings Reports
Trump Wants SEC To Consider Half-Year Earnings Reports
August 20, 2018  |  B2B Payments

U.S. President Donald Trump has reportedly asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to consider the impact of nixing required quarterly earnings reports in...

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Hedging Bets, Hedging Taxes As Taxman Cometh For Cryptos   
Hedging Bets, Hedging Taxes As Taxman Cometh For Cryptos  
August 13, 2018  |  Investments

If the world of cryptocurrencies is relatively nascent, unformed, without a clear roadmap … guess what else is equally opaque? Tax policy. Specifically, as Fortune...

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