And Apple has this enormous cash balance to fund this talented pool of designers, engineers and marketers to introduce new products to market.
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Because analysts have been looking at the balance of fund flows, outbound hot money could be a lot larger than most estimates put it.
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How will CPAs account for this potential risk and cost on bank and hedge fund balance sheets?
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It faces the same operational limitations as Medicare Part A if its trust fund balance falls to zero.
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Continue the payroll tax cut, and you only increase the burden on our already strained trust fund balance.
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Tudor, Pickering figures that Plains is worth owning, as it has the balance sheet to fund its share of development on this and other recent finds (such as Davy Jones).
The borrowing limit thus acts like the trust fund balance in Medicare Part A or Social Security, except that it allows the program to go a fixed amount into the red.
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At a Monday briefing, David Bauer, the group's senior vice president for government relations, noted that in reauthorizing the last round of highway spending, Congress opted against raising taxes in favor drawing down the Highway Trust Fund balance.
So the choices are basically balance the budget, defund regulations and do not increase revenues, or balance the budget, fund regulations and include an increase in revenues.
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All that would accomplish would be to transfer the bank balance to the money market fund.
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Coming on the back of another (not yet implemented) shift in quotas in April 2008, this promises to alter the balance of power within the fund quite substantially.
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If the latter, you would probably be better off putting two-thirds (or more) of your money in cash investments and buying a straightforward index fund with the balance.
Many believe capital deployment should follow a "pecking-order theory" that prescribes that managements should apply their cash flow, in order of priority, to fix their balance sheet if overleveraged, fund organic investments, pay dividends, fund acquisitive growth and, only when there is additional cash left over, to distribute it via share repurchases.
The big balance in the Rainy Day Fund might also be tapped to help counties in the Eagle Ford and elsewhere in the state to fund the repair and improvement of county roads that are being impacted by the high volume of heavy truck traffic that comes along with rapid oil and gas development.
In an ETF, managers balance the share makeup of the fund so it accurately reflects the performance of its underlying index, charging lower fees.
When it does come into force, firms will have to include the full pension-fund position on their balance-sheet, which will generally reduce their net worth.
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If an agreement between the two political parties on spending cuts cannot be reached in that timeframe, the Debt Ceiling debate would then return to the front burner as more debt would thus be needed (potentially involving another increase to the Debt Ceiling) to fund the existing Federal balance sheet imbalance.
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The interests of its pension-fund members and its own balance sheet may not always coincide with the best interests of the state.
The scheme I advocate is to take out a mortgage you don't need and use it to fund a Health Savings Account balance you aren't supposed to have.
If a company truly has excess cash on its balance sheet that is not needed to fund future profitable projects, then distributing it to shareholders is the right thing to do.
Also increasing is the balance in the Airport and Airway Trust Fund because user fees and taxes, which were intended to be dedicated exclusively to aviation improvements, are not being invested as they should be.
The announcement that it will likely need to raise more capital to fund the LTE will make the balance sheet even less attractive.
But the balance of the argument was finer than the Fund and its principal sponsor appear to think and chances to strengthen the case for action have been missed.
If you were to sell this fund, does it inadvertently tilt the balance of your holdings towards other asset classes?
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That kind of extra money to fund the drug gangs only worsens the balance of power between the state and the traffickers.
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The Treasury Department is so concerned it got the three biggest U.S. banks to organize a fund to bail out these off-balance sheet holdings.
On the more conservative end, the Vanguard Health Care Fund vghcx ( vghcx) seems to balance large drug companies with more established biotech firms--that is, those that actually have products.
There's something for everyone in new research from the International Monetary Fund today on the damage done to government balance sheets by the great financial crisis of 2008-9.
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That is precisely what would be involved in an internationally syndicated fund to backstop ruble convertibility or to meet balance of payments requirements such as providing a cushion for increased Soviet unemployment and a food-import scheme.
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