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.

(source: sapling.com)

Kardashian, Mayweather Face Class Action Over Alleged Crypto Endorsements
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You can understand Kim Kardashian and former NBA star Paul Pierce getting snared, but you’d think Floyd Mayweather would have learned to avoid crypto endorsements...

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PYMNTS DeFi Series: What’s Real, What’s Hype, What Matters
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Welcome to the 10th installment of PYMNTS’ series on decentralized finance (DeFi). We’ve been looking at every part of DeFi — the biggest, hottest, most rewarding...

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Who wants to be a millionaire? For two decades, beginning in 1999, that was the name of one of the most popular TV game shows...

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Delivery Hero Pours $200M Into German Grocery Firm Gorillas Technologies
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September 24, 2021  |  Retail

Delivery Hero has plans to invest in Germany’s Gorillas Technologies, a grocery startup, as part of a $1 billion funding round, according to Bloomberg Thursday...

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Robinhood Crypto Wallets Due Next Month
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September 22, 2021  |  Cryptocurrency

Two days after reports emerged that Robinhood was testing a new crypto wallet, the company made it official: Crypto wallets will begin rolling out next...

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Acorns Grow Inc. has hired former Amazon.com Inc. executive David Hijirida as its new president ahead of the savings and investing startup’s initial public offering,...

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Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent a good part of the company’s second-quarter earnings call Wednesday (July 28) speaking about the so-called metaverse to play...

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July 29, 2021  |  Earnings

PayPal reported second-quarter results Wednesday (July 28) that showed the great digital shift had boosted eCommerce fortunes and that peer-to-peer (P2P) payments during the period...

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July 28, 2021  |  Earnings

San Francisco-based FinTech LendingClub said it had its most profitable quarter in company history Wednesday (July 28) as the newly minted lender completed its first...

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