Stocks end week with a draw

May 30

Stocks end week with a draw

Data show spending and incomes rose last month and inflation at the personal level was benign. Tech stocks get a lift from better-than-expected earnings at Dell and Marvell Technology.

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Investing

Investing 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.

Differences

The term "investment" is used differently in economics and in finance. Economists refer to a real investment (such as a machine or a house), while financial economists refer to a financial asset, such as money that is put into a bank or the market, which may then be used to buy a real asset.

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