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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PayPal, Accel Back Fraud Detection Startup, Simility
PayPal, Accel Back Fraud Detection Startup, Simility
December 13, 2017  |  Investments

Simility, the fraud detection and risk management startup, has landed $17.5 million in funding. In a company blog post, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of...

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Bitcoin Reaches ‘Mania’ Phase As People Take Out Loans To Fund Token Purchases
Bitcoin Reaches ‘Mania’ Phase As People Take Out Loans To Fund Token Purchases
December 12, 2017  |  Bitcoin

Joseph Borg, president of the North American Securities Administrators Association warned on Tuesday (Dec. 12) that bitcoin has entered the “mania” phase, with some people...

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Big Banks Back Startup Menlo To Fight Phishing
Big Banks Back Startup Menlo To Fight Phishing
December 12, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

With a new cyberattack hitting the news on what seems to be a weekly basis, financial heavyweights are investing millions of dollars into a cybersecurity...

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Steam Just Says No To Bitcoin
Steam Just Says No To Bitcoin
December 07, 2017  |  Retail

Bitcoin (as of the time this article was written) was valued at more than $16,000 per unit, so perhaps there is no value going out...

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As Bitcoin Bubbles, Cassandra’s Chorus
As Bitcoin Bubbles, Cassandra’s Chorus
December 01, 2017  |  Bitcoin

What do you get when a group of esteemed observers and participants in the financial system — among them Nobel laureates and billionaires and not a...

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Former SEC Official Rails Against ICOs
Former SEC Official Rails Against ICOs
November 27, 2017  |  Blockchain

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) have sprung up seemingly out of the blue to become the new go-to financing method for up-and-coming startups (often with less...

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Walmart CEO Says Turnaround Giving Them (Wall) Street Cred
Walmart CEO Says Turnaround Giving Them (Wall) Street Cred
November 22, 2017  |  Investments

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said the company’s turnaround, which was aimed at pushing back against Amazon’s dominance, is finally starting to resonate with Wall Street....

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Amid Push To Open China’s Financial Markets, Some Banks May Hesitate
Amid Push To Open China’s Financial Markets, Some Banks May Hesitate
November 16, 2017  |  Bank Regulation

Will China’s invitation get the party started? Put a different way: If you open a country’s financial markets, will the (foreign) banks bring the capital?...

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Digital Posts Double Digits in Target’s 3Q, But Holiday Forecast Hits Shares
Digital Posts Double Digits in Target’s 3Q, But Holiday Forecast Hits Shares
November 16, 2017  |  Earnings

Target's results showed same store sales growth, top and bottom lines that edged analyst estimates and growth in digital sales that showed strong momentum.  But...

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