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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Olo Highlights Five Key Takeaways In S-1 Filing For IPO
Olo Highlights Five Key Takeaways In S-1 Filing For IPO
March 09, 2021  |  IPO

After filing an S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last month, software-as-a-service (SaaS) company Olo, which creates digital ordering and delivery solutions for restaurants,...

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Deliveroo Confirms London Listing Plans Despite Losing $309 Million 
Deliveroo Confirms London Listing Plans Despite Losing $309 Million 
March 08, 2021  |  IPO

London delivery giant Deliveroo could go public on the London Stock Exchange as soon as April, regardless of posting 2020 losses totaling $309 million (£223.7...

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Balance Sheets Ballooning With Bitcoin — A Harbinger Of DeFi To Come? 
Balance Sheets Ballooning With Bitcoin — A Harbinger Of DeFi To Come? 
March 01, 2021  |  Cryptocurrency

Balance sheets ballooning with bitcoin. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...

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Red-Hot IPO Market Draws Payments Firms, FinTechs
Red-Hot IPO Market Draws Payments Firms, FinTechs
February 28, 2021  |  IPO

By any measure, initial public offerings (IPOs) were hot last year, buoyed in part by the embrace by retail investors of special purpose acquisition companies...

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Roblox Gaming Platform Pursues Older Users; Readies For Direct Listing
Roblox Gaming Platform Pursues Older Users; Readies For Direct Listing
February 26, 2021  |  IPO

Digital entertainment platform Roblox is going after adult users as it readies to go public via a direct offering scheduled for March 10, CNBC reported...

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Report: Robinhood In Talks To Pay Financial Penalty
Report: Robinhood In Talks To Pay Financial Penalty
February 26, 2021  |  Markets

To settle probes into its options trading processes and the downtime that its equity trading app faced last year, Robinhood Markets Inc. is in discussions...

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Airbnb Checks In With $3.9 Billion Loss; Predicts Travel Industry Comeback
Airbnb Checks In With $3.9 Billion Loss; Predicts Travel Industry Comeback
February 25, 2021  |  Earnings

Reflecting the travel industry’s pandemic-led decline, Airbnb held its first earnings call as a public company on Thursday (Feb. 25) reporting a respectable revenue line,...

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Sharks Start To Circle Robinhood
Sharks Start To Circle Robinhood
February 24, 2021  |  Investments

From all corners of finance and beyond, the critics are circling Robinhood — and is it possible that Robinhood’s (current) business model is circling the...

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Square Doubles Down On Bitcoin; Generates $1.7 Billion In Crypto Revenue
Square Doubles Down On Bitcoin; Generates $1.7 Billion In Crypto Revenue
February 23, 2021  |  Earnings

At Square, it’s getting hard to separate bitcoin from dollars. The company’s fourth-quarter financials reported on Tuesday (Feb. 23) were overshadowed by details about the...

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