As biotechs run low on cash and short-term investments, they have a tendency to buy one another.
Fifteen months later Physiosonics was again low on cash.
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Also, if they run low on cash and fail to pay taxes and insurance, they can lose their homes (1 out of 10 borrowers are currently at risk of default for this reason).
Chipshot.com, a golf e-commerce company, could have resorted to equity funding when it was running low on cash last winter, but it wanted to delay another round for 60 daysto let a national ad campaign soak in and to hire key employees.
For most states this rate of return is about 8%, a fantastical figure given the current low rates on cash and bonds.
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Low yields on bonds and cash pushed individual investors toward dividend-paying stocks.
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She tends to look for financial attributes that are similar to those attractive to private equity investors: well-managed companies with ample cash on the balance sheet, recurring cash flows and low valuations.
Hedge fund manager David Einhorn has led calls for Apple to boost the return earned by shareholders, which he complains is dragged down by the low income the company earns on its cash hoard.
Atkins Nutrionals , the New York company founded in 1989 by the late Dr. Robert Atkins to cash in on his low-carb diet, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday.
Current rules require companies that generate cash in low tax jurisdictions to pay the standard U.S. corporate rate on repatriated cash, less whatever tax they paid in in a foreign country.
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Nominal wage inflation remains very low, as companies sit on vast piles of cash but remain reluctant to spend, and there is still a large amount of slack in the U.S. economy, particularly given a stubbornly high rate of unemployment stuck at 9%.
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All this has been done with a judicious eye on cash flow, which has meant spending lavishly on retail spaces while keeping overhead low.
Next, recognize that if rates stay low for years on end, inflation will eat your cash alive.
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Low interest rates reduce the discount rate on corporate earnings and cash flow, raising their present value.
On average the cash amount may be as low as three percent and as high as seven percent.
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Bernstein, and Ben Reitzes of Barclays Capital, have called for Apple to take advantage of low-interest rates and take on debt to fund its cash back programs.
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So long as the yields on other assets like bonds and cash are so low, it is hard for stockmarkets to collapse.
No one involved in the creation of "Love Me Do" or "Dr. No" would have expected that either would be anything more than quick money spinners -- a throwaway two-minute pop song and a low-budget adaptation of a cheap paperback attempting to cash in on the Cold War appetite for espionage thrillers.
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Though strong balance sheets are preferable, big cash balances and low money market rates can be a drag on return on equity.
The current price-to-cash earnings multiple is neither particularly high or particularly low based on fiscal 2010 estimates (predicting full year profits double) at 12.1x.
For example, he has been willing to sit on a mountain of cash, even though interest rates are extremely low.
On the other hand, emerging market economies carry low levels of debt and operate like a cash business, making them the final frontier for strong economic growth.
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Einhorn, whose hedge fund Greenlight Capital held 1.1 million shares of Apple as of September 30, told CNBC Thursday he thinks Apple can borrow at very low interest rates, which would enable it to pay richer dividends on preferred shares without touching its cash hoard.
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That way, when you finally cash them in, you'll pay relatively low long-term capital gains taxes on your profits, instead of ordinary income taxes.
The relatively low public interest in the stock market that I discussed last week means there is plenty of cash on the sidelines, which could fuel a significant rally even from current levels.
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Knowing the government's pledge of more cash for more babies wouldn't be enough to raise the worryingly low birthrate, discussions on how to make workplaces family-friendly were reaching a pitch.
Most of the big defense companies are sitting on piles of cash built up during the flush years, and industry tax rates are relatively low given all the opportunities policymakers have handed the sector for writing off, writing down, or otherwise minimizing Pentagon mistakes.
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The bull market rose on very low trading volume, an indication that it was the result of the hundreds of billions in cash and loans provided to large financial institutions in stimulus money, which they used for trading for their own accounts in their trading departments.
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The stock does trade on the low side of its historically normal ranges of price-to-sales and price-to-cash earnings.
They get their benefit in cash each week, and while they are often highly adept at managing to operate on a low income over seven days, they may not have a bank account or access to the internet.
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