Many banks have been running on the cash equivalent of fumes during the financial crisis.
Conversely, the only asset class that can continually deliver positive returns is cash or cash equivalent investments.
That move reduced all equity and high-yield bond exposure, creating 50% cash or cash equivalent allocations across all portfolios.
To accurately assess the performance of this fund you would need to create your own benchmark that included the different US, international, and cash equivalent markets in the same percentage.
Visteon Corporation has said most employees would receive a cash payment equivalent to 16 weeks pay.
Unlike recipients of cash or cash-equivalent benefits like Social Security or food stamps, you can't measure the benefit of schools in terms of dollars.
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The Mint has added a warning to its Web site that credit-card companies could consider the purchases cash-equivalent transactions not eligible for miles, and Mint officials plan to contact credit-card issuers "to try to implement a solution, " he says.
The federal government also has been a big financial backer for solar energy projects, which can qualify for a 30 percent tax credit or receive cash in the equivalent amount.
Its aim is to provide the online equivalent of cash, to allow web surfers to exchange payments easily.
Slow-turning goods become the equivalent of cash to pay for something that in a better economy would have been covered by the cash flow and profits from customer sales.
If the government had given his mother the equivalent subsidy in cash or a health-savings account, she would have had no problem finding a dentist to see her kids.
Natural Resource Partners, even with a hefty 10.5% yield, is trading at the equivalent of nine times cash flow.
She struggled to meet a monthly bill that was equivalent to almost half of her cash income, but could not keep up payments and is now trying to go bankrupt.
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Investors largely shrugged off the settlement, which is equivalent to 15% of RIM's cash holdings.
The undisclosed loans were equivalent to 100% of Enron's pretax cash flow in 1999.
Think of it as the equivalent of a bookmaker placing bets with his firm's cash, and only pretending to lay off those bets with other bookmakers - which would be financial suicide if the real bets were not to come good.
The housing markets in both Arizona and Florida have bottomed out as cash-rich investors and foreigners snap up properties that are bargains compared with equivalent rental ones.
Recently, he shifted some of the organization's gold bullion into an equivalent bet on gold using futures, a move that freed up cash that was plowed into stocks.
But if a company keeps growing free cash flow and uses part of the cash to keep shrinking the float, why would not such a company outperform an equivalent dividend payer?
The change in net earnings and operating cash flows is primarily due to a 36% increase in the number of silver equivalent ounces sold, which was partially offset by a 24% decrease in the realized price per silver equivalent ounce, the company said in its quarterly statement Thursday.
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Shareholders in target companies may not get as much cash or stock in the transaction as they would like, but they do get the equivalent of a lottery ticket.
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Yet, considering a population of 1.4 billion, if 1% of them were moving out of poverty each year it would be the equivalent of the population of Russia all of a sudden having a little extra cash to spend at the supermarket.
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Just in case you missed it the first time around, or fell off your chair and forgot what you were reading about: Sony will lose the equivalent (or more) to the retail price of a competing console every time a cash register rings up a PS3 sale this holiday.
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