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-based financial markets platform and news website; one of the top three global financial websites in the world. It offers market quotes, information about
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s, futures, options, analysis,
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, and an economic calendar. The company itself is registered in
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, and has an Israeli subsidiary. The majority of employees and the CEO reside in Israel. After receiving tax incentives in Israel as a tech company, Investing.com moved its management to Israel and expanded its operations there.


History

Founded by Israeli entrepreneur Dror Efrat in 2007 as Forexpros, the portal offered
forex The foreign exchange market (forex, FX, or currency market) is a global decentralization, decentralized or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter (OTC) Market (economics), market for the trading of currency, currencies. This market det ...
analysis, a broker directory, and a discussion forum in English, Spanish,
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. During 2008–2009, more editions were added, and the platform expanded its offering from Forex data to encompass other financial instruments. The company purchased their current domain, Investing.com, for $2.45 million at the end of 2012 in one of the most expensive domain deals in history. Investing.com's Android app was launched in September 2013, while an
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version of the app was launched a year later. Over time, it added additional localized editions and services. Investing.com launched a new version of their cryptocurrency app in 2017. In February 2021, it was ranked as the 194th most popular website in the world, according to Alexa. It has six offices worldwide and 300 employees (as of 2019), and is composed of 33 editions in 24 languages. The company was acquired by
Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...
–based Joffre Capital in 2021 for $500 million. The company hires employees in Tel Aviv,
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Shenzhen Shenzhen is a prefecture-level city in the province of Guangdong, China. A Special economic zones of China, special economic zone, it is located on the east bank of the Pearl River (China), Pearl River estuary on the central coast of Guangdong ...
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, and across the
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, and maintains physical offices in Madrid, Tokyo, Seoul, São Paulo and Shenzhen. Investing.com has launched a platform called InvestingPro which provides exclusive data, professional tools, custom charts and professional-grade. It is ad-free and can access up to 1000+ fundamental and technical metrics.


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