invest
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That marks the reversal of a 15-year period when company buybacks and mergers-and-acquisitions activity whittled down the actual number of shares out there to invest, giving stocks fuel to keep rising, said McElligott.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
Kyle earlier this week said the government would take an aggressive approach to invest in startups, in a bid to prevent them from moving out of the country to look for funding.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Princo, as the endowment manager is known, still won’t invest in companies involved in thermal coal and tar sands, as directed by the university’s Board of Trustees.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
"Encourage more North Sea investment, reduce the windfall tax, and that would encourage businesses to invest in the north east," he said.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
With blueprints in hand he tramped through the Japanese community—to hostels, trailer courts, other housing projects like ours— trying to find families who would invest in it.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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