During the first quarter of this year, Chicago-based consultancy Treasury Strategies questioned 135 large US corporations about their cash and near-cash holdings. It has been an article of faith that most of these investment-grade corporations remain cash-rich – having retained a large portion of their healthy earnings for the past five years, reduced large-scale capital expenditure since the dotcom bust, seen off shareholder demands to return cash and avoided the clutches of avaricious private-equity acquirers.
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