While stocks have gotten hammered this year, elevating the return on your cash has gotten much easier, writes Jason Zweig in a piece for The Wall Street Journal. One logical…
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Revisiting Cash As A Hedge Against Inflation
Two years ago, John Rekenthaler posited that cash could be used as a hedge against inflation, citing 3 previous periods in the past (post-WWII, the mid-1960s, and the early 1970s)…
Cash on the Sidelines’ and What it Really Means
Cash “coursing through the economy” can certainly bolster markets and investment sentiment, says a recent Bloomberg article by Barry Ritholtz (founder of Ritholtz Wealth Management) that questions some of the…
$20 Trillion Hoard of Cash by Recession-Shocked Savers
The coronavirus pandemic and related economic shock have led consumers and investors to squirrel away cash to the tune of $20 trillion, and the higher rate could exert downward pressure…
Berkshire and Others Sitting on Piles of Cash
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is one of several behemoth companies (including Apple and Google parent Alphabet) “sitting on large cash positions that give them the wherewithal to ride out a…
Ten Companies with the Most Cash
“American companies are sitting on piles of cash, frustrating investors and leading some on Wall Street to wonder why they aren’t spending,” according to a recent CNBC article. Microsoft tops…
Why Buffett is Sitting on Piles of Cash
A recent article in MarketWatch ponders the question of why Warren Buffett has chosen to maintain and even add to his massive cash balances. “One reason may lie in this…
Put Cash Back in Your Portfolio
It’s time to consider putting cash back into your portfolio, according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal. “The value of cash was demonstrated in the first quarter,”…
The Value of Cash and the Gurus
By Justin J. Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — Cash may be one of the most boring things to talk about when discussing a company and its investment prospects. Things like a company’s…
Fund Manager Holds Cash in Anticipation of North Korea-Prompted Selloff
AMP Capital’s Nader Naeimi, who heads one of the firm’s dynamic investment funds, has about 30% of his holdings in cash, according to a Bloomberg article from earlier this month, and…