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As Michael Sapir, chief executive of ProShares, told me this week, “No one should invest their entire life savings in a levered investment.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"Everyone's going to say, 'Right, I'm not going to invest anything for the time being, because I don't know yet whether any more orders will come in'", he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
But such periods also offer opportunities for income-seekers with money to invest to buy bonds with more attractive yields.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Welsh Water, Wales' main water and sewerage supplier, said it was working to support its most vulnerable customers and planned to invest £4.2bn by 2030 to improve services.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Because income inequality is greater here, there is a wider disparity between what rich and poor parents can invest in their children.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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He is also encouraged by Western Digital’s plan to return all of its free cash flow to shareholders after it invests in research and development.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
Among those on the list was Pacific Coast Energy, a little-known California firm that invests in mature onshore fields.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
I just finished a draft essay about my career dream: a fair-trade company that invests in and designs eco-friendly clothes sewn and embroidered by Indian village women.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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Now a managing director at Otherwise Fund, Rohan invested in Hugging Face’s seed round out of a small angel fund on behalf of Index Ventures, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Across the past six seasons, STATSports - a sports technology company Kane has invested in - found his distance covered, high-speed running and accelerations were up 8%, 22% and 42% respectively.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
"I think we also will have a chance to get Nvidia to invest even more than they've had, even if they already invested a lot in Europe and in France," he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Instead of using the loan proceeds to acquire Project Exodus as promised, 4 13 Solutions used the $2.5 million to pay Wilson Holdings, apparently for money that Wilson Holdings had previously invested.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Soon he had invested almost all his money in boots, half boots, and shoes, and had ordered them to be packed for the journey to Bourbon.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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The cuts are a part of a multiyear restructuring plan led by CEO Enrique Lores to turn around the company’s performance and cut costs while investing more in AI integration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Now, having learned about investing, retirement accounts, taxes and the power of compounding, it’s incredibly comforting to know that I have a path forward.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
The company is investing $400 million to improve and grow branded checkout this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
The company is investing more in marketing, and plans to roll out more new products, partnerships and campaigns, she said, highlighting an upcoming docuseries and a bigger version of its signature fashion show.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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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