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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Acadian Asset Management To Use Bing Predicts Macroeconomic Indicators
Acadian Asset Management To Use Bing Predicts Macroeconomic Indicators
March 10, 2017  |  Investments

Acadian Asset Management, global and international investing company, announced Thursday (March 9) that it is the first investment firm to use the Bing Predicts macroeconomic...

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Online Bank PayQix Sees $11M Added To Series A
Online Bank PayQix Sees $11M Added To Series A
March 10, 2017  |  Investments

Online bank and SMB management technology platform startup PayQix recently announced it had received an $11 million investment from an unnamed source. The $11 million...

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Looking At Snap’s Streak
Looking At Snap’s Streak
March 08, 2017  |  Investments

What does it mean that shares in Snapchat parent Snap are trading at $22, where just a few days ago they rocketed up 44 percent...

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Target’s Earnings Shellacking
Target’s Earnings Shellacking
February 28, 2017  |  Retail

Today’s earnings release indicated that the tough fourth farther Target is emerging from is the beginning — and not the end — of a slump...

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Some Earnings Stirrings For Payments Stocks
Some Earnings Stirrings For Payments Stocks
February 21, 2017  |  Investments

(Editor’s note: Forgive the lack of graphics-based data, as per usual. We at PYMNTS are working through some technical issues and will endeavor to have that...

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Xometry Raises $23M To Grow Marketplace
Xometry Raises $23M To Grow Marketplace
February 17, 2017  |  Investments

Slightly more than $120 million in investment fund flows marked the week that ended Feb. 10. That’s a slowdown from the weeks prior and over...

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Titan, Contrarian Klarman’s Views On Trump Rally
Titan, Contrarian Klarman’s Views On Trump Rally
February 08, 2017  |  Investments

The conventional wisdom may hold that a number of new Trumpian policies auger well for business: Lower taxes, less regulation and sweeping infrastructure work. But...

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Xometry On-Demand Marketplace Raises $23M
Xometry On-Demand Marketplace Raises $23M
February 02, 2017  |  Retail

Xometry, a software platform and on-demand manufacturing marketplace, raised $23 million in new funding from GE Ventures and existing investors, including Highland Capital Partners. The...

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MasterCard 4Q Revenue Down, Cross Border Volumes Up 13%
MasterCard 4Q Revenue Down, Cross Border Volumes Up 13%
January 31, 2017  |  Investments

Shares of global payments processor Mastercard were down roughly 2.8 percent in midday trading on Tuesday (Jan. 31), as the company beat earnings estimated in...

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