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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Bonfire Ventures Raises $231M for B2B Software Startups
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Bonfire Ventures, which helps B2B software companies raise money during their seed stage, has closed a $168 million seed funding round and a $63 million...

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Affirm, Upstart Help FinTech IPO Index Beat Sagging Retailers, Markets
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Open banking payments platform Token.io raised $40 million in a Series C funding round that it will use to continue advancing the shift from traditional...

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Digital car-sharing marketplace Getaround is going public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) deal with InterPrivate II Acquisition Corp., with a combined value of...

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Perfect storms are gathering in all corners of the globe to roil stocks – no matter where you look. The Dow, and the NASDAQ, have...

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Secret JPMorgan Division Developing Startup Investment Platform
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JPMorgan is reportedly in the midst of developing a business unit dedicated to private companies that will offer an array of services around the concept...

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Traditional IPOs Announcements Gain Ground in 2022, While SPAC Deals Sputter
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Roughly six weeks into 2022, and depending on how you look at it, the initial public offering (IPO) landscape is bright — or perhaps if...

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At Senate Hearing, CFTC Chair Behnam Steps Up Battle With SEC for Crypto Oversight
At Senate Hearing, CFTC Chair Behnam Steps Up Battle With SEC for Crypto Oversight
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Fresh from his confirmation hearing, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Rostin Behnam made another, more aggressive pitch for authority over the cryptocurrency market in front...

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