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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Chinese Tech Sector Faces Capital Crunch
Chinese Tech Sector Faces Capital Crunch
January 06, 2020  |  International

Numerous unicorns were among the hundreds of Chinese tech firms that toppled in 2019 as the economy soured and startups went through piles of cash,...

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LATAM’s Loft Snags $175M To Improve Digital Real Estate Sales
LATAM’s Loft Snags $175M To Improve Digital Real Estate Sales
January 03, 2020  |  Investments

Latin America-based Loft, a digital real estate startup that aims to make buying and selling real estate in the region easier, has raised $175 million...

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Employees Claim OYO Uses Corrupt Practices To Boost Growth
Employees Claim OYO Uses Corrupt Practices To Boost Growth
January 03, 2020  |  International

The New York Times is reporting that OYO, a quickly growing hotel startup that aims to be the largest hotel chain in the world by...

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Analyst Predicts Apple Shares Will Fall Sharply Over 2020
Analyst Predicts Apple Shares Will Fall Sharply Over 2020
January 01, 2020  |  Investments

Although Apple was the 2019 star of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, tech investor Paul Meeks calculates that the stock is worth much less than...

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Bitcoin Investors Expect Big Returns In The New Year
Bitcoin Investors Expect Big Returns In The New Year
December 31, 2019  |  Bitcoin

Bitcoin investors are in for a halving event in 2020 that could potentially give their currency a boost, according to Bloomberg. Get the Full Story...

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Klarna Co-Founder Among Swedish Startup Execs Funding Social Change
Klarna Co-Founder Among Swedish Startup Execs Funding Social Change
December 23, 2019  |  Investments

The leaders behind Klarna, Minecraft and Candy Crush Saga are joining other startup founders and H&M’s founding Persson family to fund firms that are trying...

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The Week In Payments: N26 Ups Debit Rewards, Wag Sags And Bill Ready Goes To Google
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December 13, 2019  |  News

There was no lack of action in the wild world of payments and commerce this week. In the running toward things column, there was German...

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Shift4 Payments Registers For IPO
Shift4 Payments Registers For IPO
December 04, 2019  |  IPO

Shift4 Payments has filed paperwork to go public. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

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Citi Analyst: Reg Compliance Could Cut Quarter Of Facebook Stock Value
Citi Analyst: Reg Compliance Could Cut Quarter Of Facebook Stock Value
December 04, 2019  |  Markets

With a warning that regulatory risks could take away over a quarter of Facebook’s stock value, analyst Jason Bazinet noted that the social media firm...

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