This contradicts the widely-held theory that cash-strapped low-income households will spend a tax cut while high-income workers will save those extra dollars.
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Because Google ranks sites in its search results based on how many other sites link to them, many high-ranking sites will sell links to low-ranking sites, earning cash in return for boosting the low-ranking site in search results.
Even in this volatile market, it is not wise to hold all cash or low-earning certificates of deposit.
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This is primarily the result of the popularity of cash for low-value transactions.
It holds Apple and Sun, but also some dot-coms and smaller techs, all having lots of cash and low price-to-earnings and price-to-book ratios.
Simply put, investors in those countries who have parked their savings in cash and low-yielding investments, such as Treasury bills and money market accounts in the U.S., are actually losing money due to inflation.
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On this score, reality is dawning on policy makers: Last week, Bank of England Governor Mervyn King, the high priest of the global regulatory onslaught, called for a rethink of the Basel liquidity rules that have led banks to hoard cash in ultra-low-yielding central bank reserves and government bonds.
Two holdovers from the hard times--low interest rates and cash-flush corporate balance sheets--give buyers of castoffs the wherewithal.
The ECB is also loth to soil its hands with public debt, though banks flush with central-bank cash are keen buyers of such low-risk assets.
Still, we could scrap the refundable credits and replace them with a direct cash payment to low-income working families.
He's going to keep the cash in a low-return money fund while waiting.
Flashy little things they were, offering cash-back deals and low, low financing.
Due to their high land component, vineyards tend to be low cash-return businesses and are generally more difficult to sell than other types of assets.
It is also important to note that the official poverty number released today does not reflect the effects of tax credits like these and non-cash assistance to low income families.
Economists generally agree that in order to work, any fiscal stimulus package has to be timely, temporary and targeted at those who will spend the extra cash, like low- and middle-income households.
Democrats tend to favor some direct cash infusions to low- and middle-income Americans in the form of tax rebates, by extending jobless benefits for those out of work, and by making food stamps more available.
Chief Executive Charles Li is refocusing HKEx to take advantage of expectations that China will become a net exporter of capital as currency restrictions are relaxed, with growing commodities and fixed-income products to diversify away from low-margin cash equities.
Banks are increasingly moving business out of expensive bricks-and-mortar branches to cash machines, home computers and low-cost mini-branches in supermarkets.
Yes, you can see the current situation of lots of cash, a low price-earnings multiple, name recognition, enterprise usage.
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Cash generates very low long-term real returns, of around 1% a year.
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If businesses get the sense that consumers are willing to spend, they may be willing to pull that cash out of low interest-bearing accounts and put those funds to work.
So there's a window to extract low-taxed cash from corporate coffers, and business owners are rushing through it.
In 2001, in a desperate effort to stave off debt default, Domingo Cavallo, the economy minister, forced them to swap bonds (and cash) for long-dated or low-yielding paper.
It is rather as though a household with lots of cash sitting idle in a low-interest bank account was at the same time paying a much higher interest rate on its debts.
As biotechs run low on cash and short-term investments, they have a tendency to buy one another.
No one involved in the creation of "Love Me Do" or "Dr. No" would have expected that either would be anything more than quick money spinners -- a throwaway two-minute pop song and a low-budget adaptation of a cheap paperback attempting to cash in on the Cold War appetite for espionage thrillers.
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Still, stocks are looking increasingly attractive compared with low-yielding bonds or cash, said Russ Koesterich, global chief investment strategist at BlackRock Inc.
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This is due to the relatively small amount that you can invest into a mini-cash Isa coupled with, currently, low rates of interest.
Instead of selling shares, though, and moving money into low-yielding bonds or cash, investors decided to shift to safer stocks, many with sizable dividends.
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