These Companies are Sitting on Billions of Idle Cash + MORE

kitteh wrote:Default User BR wrote:One thing to be aware of, Vanguard won’t allow you to open accounts with an address outside of the US. So don’t try to open any that way. If that’s your situation, say so and people can suggest other options.BrianCurious as to why that is? Anyone know?My understanding is Vanguard does not want the burden of complying with the multitude of laws/rules/regulations in foreign countries…

There’s plenty of talk about the risk of a bond bubble right now and the “great rotation” into equities.
On one hand, hedge fund guru Jeff Gundlach is chasing Treasuries in a big way, and bond king Bill Gross remains convinced that while bonds are weaker, they are far from dead.
On the other hand, the idea that bond selling (and subsequently, long-term rates) has picked up thanks to the stock market’s rally — and that the bond bubble will hurt just as bad as the housing bubble or as bad as the dot-com bubble — continues be a cause for concern…

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Thanks to Google Android, Samsung has climbed to become the largest smartphone vendor in the world by market share. The open-source platform has proved critical to the South Korean company’s success in recent years, which has also greatly benefited the search giant, too…

“How do you make a million? Borrow a million, invest it in real estate, and pay it off.”
– Jack Miller
I just returned from a weeklong Royal Caribbean cruise on the “Freedom of the Seas” (great ship) sponsored by The Real Estate Guys Robert Helms and Russell Gray, who have their own radio show and are regular speakers at FreedomFest…

Here at StreetAuthority, we've been relentlessly talking about the $1.7 trillion "Dividend Vault," the name we've given to the unprecedented amount of cash that U.S. companies have stockpiled since the Great Recession.

This is great news for investors, because we're predicting that a large chunk of that $1…

March 15 (Bloomberg) — Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas
discusses two exchange-traded funds that focus on the financial
industry. They have gained at least 13 percent so far this
year. Bloomberg Radio’s Catherine Cowdery reports on Exchange
Traded Funds.

By SA Editor Miriam Metzinger: Stocks discussed on the Lightning Round session of Jim Cramer’s Mad Money TV Program, Thursday March 14.Bullish Calls:
HollyFrontier (HFC), Alon Energy (ALJ), Valero (VLO): "I like the
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The cracks are starting to show in Samsung’s relationship with Google, since the South Korean company continues to try and steal the show from Android.