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equity

[ek-wi-tee] / ˈɛk wɪ ti /


NOUN
money invested in possession
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This week, Nvidia took an equity stake in SoftBank’s SB Energy, a deal tied to a megacampus in Ohio that OpenAI leased for 20 years.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

The booming business of sports has attracted a flood of private equity investment and even the most notable franchises require the influx of cash to keep up in the arms race.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

Players have been promised equity under a deal with a new investor, but quite what that equates to remains unknown.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

That’s according to Goldman Sachs’ hedge fund trend monitor that published Thursday and encompasses almost 1,000 funds with $5.4 trillion of gross equity positioning.

From MarketWatch Aug. 21, 2026

Unbeknownst to me, after taking out an equity loan on our house to help pay my sister's tuition, my parents couldn't keep up with mortgage payments.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

“The industry expects accelerated rule making for supporting native crypto tokens, tokenized equities, perpetual futures” and other crypto-related activities, Chhugani says.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Strip them out and European earnings still grew 7% in the second quarter, according to Sharon Bell, senior European equities strategist at Goldman Sachs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

For stock markets, the worry is that higher bond yields will lure investors away from perceived riskier equities and raise the cost of capital for corporate entities.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

I have about 5% in cash and 6% in options-based income ETFs, with the rest in equities.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Those submerged men begin to think sullenly on the subject, they try to grasp the equities of the situation.

From Papers of the American Negro Academy. (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 18-19.) by John W. Cromwell




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