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investment

[in-vest-muhnt] / ɪnˈvɛst mənt /


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“This was more of a trade than a long-term investment for me at this point.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 23, 2026

They point out that, while Australia and New Zealand’s geography justify a scaled ultra long-haul fleet, Qantas’s northern hemisphere peers don’t appear to have sufficient use cases to warrant the investment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

The syndicate of investment banks underwriting the SpaceX IPO, which was the largest and most highly-touted IPO in history, accepted a fee of only 0.7%.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2026

In a separate resignation, hours later, Carns said he could not "in good conscience stand at the dispatch box and defend a level of investment I know to be inadequate to the task".

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Accounting thus became the basis for rational investment choices and made it possible to decide how to divide up the profits of a partnership.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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