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Re: Cash & Money Market Funds

Postby winston » Thu Apr 14, 2016 5:38 pm

Cash Remains King Because Nobody Knows What’s Going On In Global Markets

By Chris Dieterich

Recent survey* of global fund managers conducted by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, finds that investors held an average 5.4% of portfolios in cash, up from 5.1% a month earlier and just shy of February’s 14-year high.


Source: Barron's

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Re: Cash & Money Market Funds

Postby winston » Fri Apr 15, 2016 7:01 am

Chinese counterfeiters’ banknotes prove so good they fool detection machines

Police arrest 14 suspects who had reportedly printed fake money with a face value totalling 4 million yuan and posted in to buyers

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Re: Cash & Money Market Funds

Postby winston » Fri May 20, 2016 8:54 pm

Investors in cash near 15-year high as Wall Street braces for shocks

Cash levels inched up to 5.5% in May versus 5.4% in April, nearing the 15-year high of 5.6% in February.


“Key risks include less China growth, a general pick-up of European political risk, a repricing of the Fed rate hike cycle, and commodity price declines”


Source: Market Watch

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/invest ... eid=yhoof2
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Re: Cash & Money Market Funds

Postby winston » Mon May 23, 2016 8:33 am

The "Great American Cash Pile" Is a Myth

by MICHAEL E. LEWITT

The truth is, U.S. companies are dangerously leveraged after surrendering to their own greed and that of activist investors whining for share buybacks and dividend hikes in lieu of investing money back in their businesses.

Moody's and Standard & Poor's are finally catching on to what I've been warning about for a couple of years: U.S. corporations are more highly leveraged now than before the 2008 financial crisis.

This leverage is disguised by low interest rates, but all of this debt has to be repaid and many companies are generating insufficient cash flow to do so.

In fact, the so-called vast cash hoard of Corporate America is highly concentrated among a small group of just five companies: Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL), Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT), Alphabet, Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG), Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO), and Oracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) – holding more than a third of it.

The average junk-rated company has little cash, too much debt and no free cash flow to repay its debt and is only being kept afloat by low interest rates. This is the real story that Wall Street and its prostituted analysts won't tell.


Source: Money Morning

http://moneymorning.com/2016/05/22/no-o ... -say-this/
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Re: Cash & Money Market Funds

Postby winston » Sat Jun 04, 2016 4:49 pm

2 Reasons To Keep Plenty of Cash OUTSIDE of The Bank

By Steve Sjuggerud

Source: Daily Crux

http://www.thetradingreport.com/2016/06 ... -the-bank/
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Re: Cash & Money Market Funds

Postby winston » Tue Jun 14, 2016 9:15 am

4 Places To Stash Your Cash Outside of a Bank

By Simon Black

Source: Sovereign Man

http://www.thetradingreport.com/2016/06 ... of-a-bank/
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Re: Cash & Money Market Funds

Postby winston » Tue Jun 14, 2016 7:13 pm

Investors hold biggest cash pile since 2001 as world gloom deepens - BAML

Fund managers held an average 5.7 percent of their portfolio in cash, up from 5.5 percent in May.


Cash balances above 4.5 percent generate a contrarian 'buy' signal for equities, BAML said.

Balances below 3.5 percent trigger a contrarian 'sell' signal.


Allocation to equities fell to a net overweight 1 percent position - a four-year low - from 6 percent overweight in May.

So far this year, global equity funds have posted a net outflow of $106 billion, almost all from developed markets.

On the flip side, investors' allocation to bonds rose to a net 34 percent underweight from 41 percent underweight the month before.


Source: Reuters

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/investors ... 16681.html
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Re: Cash & Money Market Funds

Postby winston » Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:43 am

Two more reasons why you should be holding plenty of cash OUTSIDE of the bank

by Steve Sjuggerud

Source: True Wealth

http://thecrux.com/sjuggerud-now-is-the ... -the-bank/
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Re: Cash & Money Market Funds

Postby winston » Wed Jun 29, 2016 2:27 pm

America's biggest companies are sitting on a $1.45 trillion mountain of cash

Corporate cash is at historically high levels as increased debt is offsetting net operating cash outflows.

By Rayhanul Ibrahim

Tech companies have been leading the way, with Microsoft (MSFT) and Alphabet (GOOGL) possessing $105.6 billion and $75.3 billion, respectively.

If longer term investments are included, another tech company, Apple (AAPL), takes the lead, with $232.9 billion.

The Information Technology sector in general is holding nearly $604 billion.


How can cash levels be increasing, while cash inflow goes down and cash outlays go up?

The answer is debt, which has been increasing more rapidly than cash. The year-over-year growth rate for cash was a respectable 5.7%, but debt grew 9.9%.


“One of the ongoing trends in the S&P 500 (Ex-Financials) index has been less spending on capital expenditures and more spending on shareholder distributions,"


Source: Yahoo Finance

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Re: Cash & Money Market Funds

Postby winston » Wed Jul 13, 2016 8:35 pm

Here's How Much Cash You Should Hold Right Now

By MICHAEL E. LEWITT

My suggested portfolio is 10% to 20% cash.

Incidentally, that's the exact same amount I allot to gold, so you know I'm a cash fan.


My favorite "alternative" place to put cash is in one-month or three-month Treasury bills.


Source: Money Morning

http://moneymorning.com/2016/07/13/here ... right-now/
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