Some corporations have cash on hand (see " Cash-Rich Companies"), some funds are just waiting for the right buying opportunities (see " Cash-Rich Mutual Funds") and many households are very liquid (see " Household Cash" table).
Hutchison and its parent Cheung Kong are among the world's most cash-rich companies.
If they want to compete in couponing, they will line up against Groupon, LivingSocial and other cash-rich companies with many more users.
Japan's cash-rich companies, on the prowl for opportunities in economies that, unlike Japan's, are actually growing, see huge potential in TPP participants such as Malaysia or Mexico.
Although current income has been a recent key driver of stock returns of cash-rich companies and has generated more certainty for investors, growth in earnings is much more variable and uncertain.
South Korea is likely to see a pickup in merger-and-acquisition activity this year, as its cash-rich companies shop for overseas assets and as the government is expected to renew efforts to unload state-held stakes now that December's presidential election is over.
Rather, three cash-rich energy companies were asked to buy blocks of the government's shares in each other.
Breedon wants to make it easier for smaller businesses to raise money from investors rather than banks, and also to encourage cash-rich big companies to mitigate the borrowing needs of their smaller suppliers.
Stocks represent publicly traded companies, of course, and these companies are cash rich and participating in global growth.
The rich cash position of Japanese companies is not quite as seductive to William Fries, whose Thornburg International Value Fund has returned 23% on average over the last five years.
Companies are cash rich, but are not putting their money to work into the U.S. because of political risk and a simple lack of new business in the pipeline, says Richard Soultanian, a managing director at NUS Consulting Group.
While few restructuring advisors predict bankruptcies among the large companies, which have successfully de-levered and are cash rich, there is trouble looming for middle-market companies that have high debt levels, especially those that are in the retail, restaurant and media business.
Chinese companies are cash-rich, need technology and want to be global.
The region's debt-ridden banks and companies face takeover by cash-rich North American and European multinationals.
For some companies, such as cash-rich Toyota, this is certainly a good idea.
However, as the cycle has bottomed, I would expect market rotation into out-of-favor sectors, companies with dominant market positions, cash rich balance sheets, and growing end markets.
Many of the communications-infrastructure chip companies are still losing money, and because they were cash rich from the secondary offerings during the up cycle, they were not as aggressive in cost control during the down cycle.
Turkey, trading at just 10 times earnings, is a fast-rising economic power, with a core of internationally competitive companies that are turning the youthful nation into an entrepreneurial hub, tapping cash-rich export markets in Russia and the Middle East while attracting billions of investments to boot.
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