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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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Can an Expense Be Profit?

Martinka Consulting

His primary motivation was he’s burned out and the driving force for the burn out is 2015 was not a good year financially. His balance sheet is a mess. One that struck me is something I see every so often and it’s marketing expense. Sales were down from 2014 and expenses were up.

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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?

MishTalk

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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ECB's €40bn Stimulus Gamble: ECB Pulls Out Bazooka, Cuts Rates, Buys Assets; Will this Stimulate Lending?

MishTalk

This reflects the role of the ABS market in facilitating new credit flows to the economy and follows the intensification of preparatory work on this matter, as decided by the Governing Council in June. in 2015 and 1.4% The projections for 2015 and 2016 have remained unchanged. in 2014, 1.1%

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Persistent Overoptimism Three Ways: Truckers, Fed Economists, Manufacturers

MishTalk

Of course, there is also persistent overoptimism about earnings growth and stock market expectations. In November 2007, the Federal Open Market Committee began releasing projections for real GDP growth four times per year in its Summary of Economic Projections (SEP). Here are the readings for 2015. 7/2015 -14.92

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Why Apple Is Getting into the Energy Business

Harvard Business

As the electric power industry shifts from a model where individual local utilities have a monopoly on electricity provision in a region to a much more dynamic market, these prosumers will be able to make and sell a variety of obscure new products and services like frequency regulation. California, Texas, and most of the U.S.

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Capital Flight from Italy High and Rising

MishTalk

It is therefore useful to examine the balance of payments of Italy to find out the exact cause of the recent surge of the Target2 liabilities of the Bank of Italia. Data of the balance of Payments have been published until August 2015.