Something to ponder. This morning usa today led its money section with a stunning story about how onethird of the cash is that the Balance Sheets of american businesses is held by just five companies. Five companies. Thats incredible. What i think is even more amazing is that the stocks of those five companies are doing quite poorly. Down almost 3 on average. Not only that but the quoims the ten largest arent beating on average either. Why is this . First generally speaking, for the most part, the cash heavy company are beating the slower value place. Second, it cant be repatriated without paying big federal taxes. There is good news believing they would final it. Third. There are companies specific issues with each of these stocks so we have to address them one by one. Let me name the five kings of cash explaining the sub optimal performance. First is apple. Down 8 year to date. Despite having more than 233 billion in cash. Apple used to be a great growth stock but the market has deci
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And got to hand it to him. A brave base jumper pulls off the most spectacular high five youve seen. Today, monday, december 15, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Got the gang all here willie in for matt boy, breaking news out of australia this morning. Well get to it. Its a tense situation at a cafe in sydney and its playing out on live television. Chilling images of hostages inside and the few who have made a daring dash to safety. Lets go to sarah james, she has the latest. Good morning to you. Reporter nbc news can confirm this morning that the identity of the gunman who is holding those hostages is sheikh man haron. This selfstyled cleric is an iranian immigrant to australia, the man who is believed to be behind this terror attack that struck at the heart of sydney here in the financial, political and media center of the city, taking
Stirring up fear by using 9 11 references. This in preparation of the release of sonys movie the interview a comedy that depicts the assassinations of north koreas leader king jongun. Sources tell cnbc that sony is telling theaters they would support a decision to not run the movie, and that carmine cinemas has already canceled the showing. Are they credible . Terror analyst i doubt its a credible threat. I dont mean to encourage people necessarily to go to the movie and think theyre necessarily safe. That said, really honestly there has never been a case where a movie showing or any cyber terrorism threat has really resulted in people losing their lives. The movies stars, james franco and seth rogen have canceled the rest of the publicity tour for the movie. Nbcs dan shenaman reports. Reporter after embarrassing emails, movies, careen place and employees personal information being released, theyre making threats that extend far beyond hollywood all in an attempt to force the company t