capital

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During this blisteringly fast phase of AI development, it’s no longer enough for venture capital firms to invest in companies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

The goal was to boost capital markets activity, depressed after the global financial crisis, by making it easier for small, high-growth companies to raise capital through IPOs.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Now in her 80s, Lami Ezekiel remembers construction crews arriving in her ancestral home in Maitama, as it was destroyed to build Nigeria's capital, Abuja.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

The main difference between those figures has to do with the treatment of spending on big-ticket items like data centers and equipment, called capital expenditures, or capex.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

As young Paul Jennings prepared for this White House meal, America’s military leaders refused to believe that the British would attack the nation’s capital.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis