Investors circle largest corporate cash hoard ever in US
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Investors circle largest corporate cash hoard ever in US

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U.S. companies are sitting on the largest pile of cash ever. Cash holdings at nonfinancial companies grew to a record $2.1 trillion at the end of June, according to a report from Moody’s Investors Service. View Full Image Cash holdings Other measures show some of America’s largest companies continued to hang on to record cash stockpiles at the end of the third quarter. As of Nov. 30, U.S. companies had sold more than $2 trillion of investment-grade and high-yield bonds—the most on record in data going back to 2006—according to LCD, a unit of S&P Global Market Intelligence. “Next year, the expectations are for no meaningful corporate bond issuance because companies are sitting on huge cash buffers that are no longer needed," said Ralf Preusser, rates strategist at BofA.

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