Crude oil's recent slide is a result of ample supplies and recent speculation that the Federal Reserve may soon allow interest rates to rise, which would reduce the supply of easy cash investors have been using to buy commodities like oil.
Consequently, it is easy for normal cash balances to appear abnormally high relative to other assets.
Pageonce makes it extremely easy to track your cash balance, bills, investments, and other budget items.
It was an easy place to spend cash because the share price was high.
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Its use as a means of exchange is also getting easier: an increasing number of online retailers take the currency, and new smartphone apps make Bitcoins almost as easy to use as cash.
Customer contracts are for 10 to 15 years, so cash flow is easy to forecast.
Without an easy way to hand out cash to shareholders, management and boards tend to engage in cash hoarding, share buybacks and acquisitions.
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And while it isn't as easy for the men to cash in on fashion endorsements and fragrances, some, including Avon spokesman Patrick Dempsey (No. 8), have found a way in.
Bent's innovation makes borrowing from your 401 (k) as easy as going to a local cash machine.
People raising money for charity use JustGiving as an easy way for people to pledge cash to their project, stunt or event.
"It's a really easy way to turn digits into cash, " Litan said.
In each case, the companies suffered from maturing debts that required immediate cash, and had no easy sources for financing.
If you use plastic for the bulk of your spending, it's easy to assume that credit cards with cash-back features are a dream come true.
From my study of money managers, and particularly mutual fund managers, those with much larger-than-their normal cash positions miss the relatively easy winnings in the early stages of recovery.
Paying for items with a debit or credit card has removed the pain of handing over cash, which makes it easy to give in to impulse purchases and overspend.
Buying a less expensive car, the next time you are shopping for a vehicle and canceling your cell phone service, are two easy ways to come up with some cash to fund your savings plan.
It's an easy way for New Jersey to recoup some cash from EV drivers without targeting them directly.
They still owned a lot of options, too, which was another easy way to flood the household accounts with cash temporarily.
"It is clear to us that criminals are moving into computer games piracy as an easy means of funding other illegal activities and laundering cash, " he said.
"We're thrilled to expand our relationship with Zynga and provide an easy way for players to earn Zynga virtual game cash by learning about Serve and signing up to receive the many benefits of our digital wallet, " said Dan Schulman, President of Enterprise Growth, American Express.
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Well-run companies have found it pretty easy to take over badly run stations and triple their cash flow.
And although that might be a great thing from the point of view of the ethical standing of the banking system, it is never nice or easy for any bank to see a vast amount of cash walking out the door - especially since, as I mentioned earlier, that can increase its dependence on emergency replacement finance from the European Central Bank.
In fact, easy access to your information can be helpful in managing your cash flow.
If I can understand how the company makes money and the future revenues are easy to model, then I have a sense of the cash flows that would support the dividend payout.
It was easy to get a four or five to one write off on your cash actually at risk.
The project continues, but it has not been easy to persuade America's Congress and others to keep finding the cash for the fuel shipments.
Much less certain subprime cash flows from borrowers often with very poor credit were apparently an easy mountain for Wall Street to scale.
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These direct providers are able to combat many concerns through price transparency, easy access and lower costs as they establish what is basically a menu of cash only services.
Wharton School Professor Jeremy Siegel has discovered that reinvesting all your cash dividends in more shares of the same stock (not so easy to do by the way) can mean over a long period of time a contribution of significant return.
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