It also equaled half the total cash and short-term investments on those companies books.
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As biotechs run low on cash and short-term investments, they have a tendency to buy one another.
And without a doubt, it will also mean real, short-term investments in new security approaches on the part of companies.
They are typically short-term investments that banks market as a high-yield alternative to bank deposit rates, which are kept low by the government.
Net cash is a traditional measure of excess cash and is calculated by totaling cash, marketable securities and short-term investments, and subtracting current liabilities.
By definition, as short-term investments, an investor will need a comprehensive plan that maps out when to when to buy and when to sell.
Hitachi's total borrowings minus cash and short-term investments amount to only 21% of its shareholders' funds, compared with 127% at Toshiba and 180% at Mitsubishi Electric.
Cash and short-term investments, by contrast, have the opposite effect.
And that recipe of short-term investments in growth and jobs with a long-term path of fiscal responsibility is the right approach to take for, I think, not only the United States but also for Europe.
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In contrast, only children, who in theory share many characteristics with first borns, reported the highest instance of taking financial risks at least sometimes, 39 percent, such as borrowing for short-term investments, or investing in risky ventures.
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However since a bank only keeps a small percentage of its assets in cash or short-term investments if there is a run on a bank or handful of them the overall faith in the banking system could be rattled.
American Express earns a net interest income on the spread between the rate it earns from un-loaned amounts sitting in bank deposits and short-term investments in financial securities and the rates at which it extends credit to card members.
Investors feel more comfortable with the stability of ultra-short term investments while ignoring the long-term effect of inflation.
These are short-term immediate investments to spur job creation.
While China keeps tight control on flows of capital in and out of the economy, short-term speculative investments often take place under the radar, and the central bank typically soaks up extra cash by using so-called liquidity operations.
Others will make bigger adjustments, putting some assets needed for short-term expenses in safe investments like money-market accounts while leaving assets for long-term expenses in riskier investments like stocks.
They have a lot built into their structure that make them great trading tools for very short-term traders, but terrible investments for longer-term investors.
It was even paying 6.5% for short-term (six-month) investments.
But it is too soon to tell whether the vehicle will ever be restored to its former pre-credit-crunch glory, when it was able to issue short-term commercial paper to fund its investments in asset-backed securities.
Harvests are dependent on the weather, and short-term changes in demand are out of kilter with the long-term investments needed to boost supplies of metals and oil.
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Point tools may have enormous short-term success but may not be sustainable as attractive, outsized long-term investments.
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We truly are awash in cheap capital -- which means that returns on long-term investments in empowering innovations will yield the same returns as short-term ones.
Again, this is a short-term trading system, and you should not use PowerRatings to select long-term investments.
But as long as such high returns are available on short-term government paper, even a tax break may not make longer-term, riskier investments look sufficiently appetising.
And the balance may be different in short-term purchases costing a few hundred pounds, such as motor insurance, and long-term investments costing many thousands, such as pensions.
My method advocates long-term investments supplemented by short-term trades.
Strong fundamentals along with ample liquidity, which will remain in the system even after the end of QE2, and a lagging, even deteriorating economic outlook for developed nations, will provide support for EM investments in the short-term, according to HSBC.
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Yet the amount of income that they can draw on from what they would consider safe investments and CDs or short-term bonds is abysmal.
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Short-term goals should never be matched with stock investments.
Boston-based quant shop, ClearStream Investments, says the top four BRIC exchange traded funds are duds short-term.
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