| Investment
or 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. Literally, the word means the "action of putting
something in to somewhere else" (perhaps originally related to a
person's garment or 'vestment'). |