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BETA

Investment

Financial Markets

Bond market
Stock (Equities) Market
Forex market
Derivatives market
Commodity market
Spot (cash) Market
OTC market
Real Estate market

Market Participants

Investors
Speculators
Institutional Investors

Corporate finance

Structured finance
Capital budgeting
Financial risk management
Mergers and Acquisitions
Accounting
Financial Statements
Auditing
Credit rating agency

Personal finance

Credit and Debt
Employment contract
Retirement
Financial planning

Public finance

Tax

Banks and Banking

Fractional-reserve banking
Central Bank
List of banks
Deposits
Loan
Money supply

Financial regulation

Finance designations
Accounting scandals

History of finance

Stock market bubble
Recession
Stock market crash

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Investment or investing[1] is a term with several closely-related meanings in business management, finance and economics, related to saving or deferring consumption. An asset is usually purchased, or equivalently a deposit is made in a bank, in hopes of getting a future return or interest from it. The word originates in the Latin "vestis", meaning garment, and refers to the act of putting things (money or other claims to resources) into others' pockets. See Invest.[citation needed]. The basic meaning of the term being an asset held to have some recurring or capital gains. It is an asset that is expected to give returns without any work on the asset per se.

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