It was packed with Canadian companies in search of capital either through a direct listing (difficult, given profitability requirements at the Hong Kong stock exchange) or a partial investment by a cash-laden, resource-hungry Chinese firm.

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Apple this morning gave what amounts to a partial answer on how it will spend its large cash pile.

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Some of the losers scraped together the cash to pay the tax and will get partial refunds of old AMT credits they could never use up.

FORBES: Poof! A Tax Credit