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Apple's Balance Sheet Math: Does Apple Really Have $203 Billion in Usable Cash on Hand as Widely Reported?

MishTalk

Current Liabilities Cash Much Smaller Than You Think I don't often dive into balance sheets, but did so after reading a Market-Watch opinion by Brett Arends. billion in “off-balance-sheet” liabilities. If “off-balance-sheet” is not included in my totals, then subtract another $31.5 billion and $137.1

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China Cash Crunch Eases, For How Long? Three Things China Needs to Avoid; When can Beijing Truly move to Market-Determined Interest Rates?

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China''s Move to Market-Set Rates Let''s step back to December 8 and look at China Relaxes Grip on Interest Rates China is relaxing its grip on interest rates with the launch of a financial instrument that allows banks to trade deposits with each other at market-determined prices. China’s credit boom is still in full swing.

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. Using the same formula, Apple’s intangible assets in 2014 were $280 billion — or almost twice the value of its 2015 calculation.

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How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience

Harvard Business

Strewn about the table were probably the tools of your trade: reams of data, balance sheets and P&Ls. Managers understand that clear-eyed analysis — both quantitative and qualitative — is the key to building a resilient business. Create a bull market. Family, Friends, Work, etc.)

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Persistent Overoptimism Three Ways: Truckers, Fed Economists, Manufacturers

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Of course, there is also persistent overoptimism about earnings growth and stock market expectations. My personal belief is the trucking industry needs to realize production of goods will have ups and downs,” Satish Jindel, principal of SJ Consulting , which closely tracks industry pricing, told Logistics Management.

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Capital Flight from Italy High and Rising

MishTalk

In response to Eurozone Target2 Imbalances Creeping Back Up , I received a nice email from Dr. Eric Dor, Director of Economic Studies at IESEG School of Management (Lille and Paris France) regarding the imbalances in Italy. Data of the balance of Payments have been published until August 2015. Eric Dor Writes.

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Can the Fed Really Print Money? What Would Negative Interest Rates Do?

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However, in Hoisington's Third Quarter 2015 Review , economist Lacy Hunt makes the claim the Fed cannot print money. The Fed, of course, has the authority to buy certain assets, including government bonds, in the open market, but that is where their authority starts and stops. Let's take a look, emphasis mine.