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invest

[in-vest] / ɪnˈvɛst /




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Alibaba entered a placement agreement for 710 million new shares to raise 10.2 billion dollars to invest in its artificial-intelligence buildout.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

The problem is that years of lower Japanese interest rates have fueled the yen-carry trade: borrow cheap in yen and invest elsewhere in the world.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

“Sports is one of those rare instances where you can invest in something cool that also makes money,” Williams said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

The same goes for knowing to shop around for car insurance, understanding cash inflows and outflows so they don’t spend more than they earn, and choosing to invest money wisely to meet their goals.

From MarketWatch Aug. 21, 2026

Burry had no real money to invest, but he nevertheless dragged his obsession along with him through high school, college, and medical school.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Now, as the Pentagon aims to spend more than a trillion and a half dollars next year and invests in new technologies like artificial intelligence, Silicon Valley is rebooting the relationship.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

The buyers: former Disney chief executive Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner, whose Thrive Eternal venture capital firm invests in sports and owns a share of the San Francisco Giants.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Alphabet’s spending levels have steadily risen as the company invests in AI initiatives that range from its custom chips to workspace applications.

From MarketWatch Aug. 6, 2026

GSK said it invests more than £6 billion in R&D each year, of which around one quarter of the amount is in the UK.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

She thinks we’ll be rich one day, but she never invests any money.

From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake

“LIV Golf recognizes the disappointment these changes may bring for fans, local stakeholders, Thomas Rhett and Disco Lines, and appreciates the significant time and effort invested by the artists and their teams,” the league said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

The bonus is that they can use some of the money they earned, but have it invested for the future as well if you’re willing to make a match.

From MarketWatch Aug. 21, 2026

The ink, real and digital, being spilled over the Sussexes return to the U.K. is proof that the public remains very much invested in the state and fate of the British royal family.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

Another, JH, invested based on Gibson's claims that he was a successful businessman.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

His name was John Devaney and he ran a hedge fund that invested in subprime mortgage bonds, United Capital Markets.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

It also said it was investing £3.5m in "innovative youth homelessness projects" including Housing First for Youth, external to help vulnerable young people "avoid or move on from homelessness".

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

In 2016, he spent more than $1 billion acquiring and investing in a 40% stake in PetroDelta for six oil fields, with the Venezuelan government holding the remainder.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Are there specific subjects that must be covered in the class, such as investing or budgeting?

From MarketWatch Aug. 21, 2026

But maybe the surprise of the next half-century will be that there’s more meat there for the investing public.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

On its surface, the booming market in side bets on subprime mortgage bonds seemed to be the financial equivalent of fantasy football: a benign, if silly, facsimile of investing.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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