With such a low cash component, the vast majority of the return--positive or negative--will come from the movement of stock prices.

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Nevertheless, the latest rumors about Apple slashing component orders, in fact, come on the heels of supposedly positive developments at competitors.

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It has very specific component parts that others on the outside have judged to have a very positive impact on the economy.

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Our national saving, consisting of personal saving, business saving, and government saving, has been inadequate, in part because the government saving component, measured by the budget balance, has been negative rather than positive.

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