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The article offers the author's insights on the forecast and development of stock market in the U.S. in 2016. Topics discussed include the use of year-end tax-selling or rebalancing to increase cash positions, improvement of income securities, and function of the Federal Reserve. Also mentioned are the economic growth, investment for cash income, and opportunities for income investors.

This article reports on eastern European stocks. From its peak in mid-May 2006 the Nomura Central and Eastern European Index has fallen 30%. Markus Brück, manager of the Metzler/Payden European Emerging Markets Fund, however, believes that it is time to buy. He weathered the storm by selling some of his holdings and increasing his cash position to 20%.

The article looks at the cash position of corporations in the U.S. as at the end of the third quarter of 1978. Topics discussed include the total cash held by American corporations during the period, the 20 percent increase in corporate debts, and the decline in liquidity to current liability ratios. Also mentioned are the liquidity positions of selected corporations in the automotive, steel and airline industries.

A biography of Edward Yardeni, the chief economist of U.S. brokerage house E.F. Hutton & Co. is presented as of June 7, 1982, with particular attention paid to his forecasts of the U.S. economy. The author discusses Yardeni's prediction for the recession in the country to become a depression, his forecasts for economic recovery, and advice on investing in cash reserves.

The article presents the author's opinion on various U.S. political and economic issues as of December 21, 1981. Topics include ouija board's economic forecasting accuracy, company's cash money, and Libyan political leader Qaddafi. Also mentioned is soft drink manufacturer Coca-Cola's Chairman Roberto Goizueta, the dates of Christmas and Easter, and unnecessary people.

Declares that Swiss-based Sulzer Technology Corp. is a company that badly needs a touch of United-States style stockholder activism. The company performing poorly on a Lehman Brothers study on European engineering firms' capital returns; How one medical parts division supports a host of other businesses; Chief executive Fritz Fahrni; Problems with too-small corporate goals.

The article discusses U.S. utility and construction company Ebasco Industries with president Charles K. Rieger who attempts to sell it benefiting the stockholders in March 1969. Particular focus is given to the company cash assets, engineering subsidiaries, and blue chip stocks portfolio. The author also comments on liquidity and the lack of internal political issues.

The article focuses on the cash position of several companies in the U.S. as of March 2, 1918. It is said that cash position rather than the rate of earnings is considered a factor in the market price of the stock and payment of dividends. Among the companies with good cash position standing include National Enameling and Stamping, Texas Co., and Baldwin Locomotive.

The author expresses the view that an abundance of technology companies with large cash holdings including consumer-electronics maker Apple Inc. and software company Microsoft Corp. bode well for a future period of vigorous merger activity. Several acquisition candidates are discussed include Internet company Yahoo and smartphone maker Research in Motion.

This article offers investment advice and warns against making an investment choice based on a company's free cash flow. What makes Jack In The Box, a chain of 2,200 hamburger and Mexican fast-food restaurants, worth $1.3 billion on Wall Street? Perhaps investors are awed by the company's ability to grow even as it's putting its capital costs on a diet. Jack's free cash flow, or cash from operations minus capital expenditures, climbed from $34 million to $90 million. Free cash flow is much in vogue on Wall Street these days. But Jack in the Box doesn't subtract from its free cash flow $10 million that it had spent on restaurant buildings and equipment. Doing so would lower its free cash flow to $80 million, says Charles Mulford, an accounting expert who runs the Georgia Tech Financial Analysis Lab. Instead the costs of the leases are being financed with a "capital lease," a perfectly legit accounting move which delivers all the effects of a heavily mortgaged asset but keeps the asset's cost out of the free cash flow calculation. "Free cash flow is always inflated when capital leases are used, because companies don't have to subtract these very real costs of doing business as cap-ex and instead can bury them in the financials," says Mulford. That makes the stock look cheaper than it really is. Capitalized leases don't affect earnings. Rather they boost free cash flow. Investors who want an accurate free cash flow number have to create it themselves by reading the footnotes.

Earnings are opinion and unreliable. Keep your eyes on the cash flow. And we are talking not just about net earnings but also about all the modern variations on that figure, such as operating earnings (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization). Why is the bottom line not a good measure of extractable cash? Because so many of the numbers above it in the profit-and-loss statement are subjective. If you want a fair measure of extractable cash, the ultimate end in running a business, try free cash flow. I asked Michael Ozanian at FORBES to scroll through the FactSet database for companies with free cash flow per share that has been growing more rapidly than earnings per share during the past three years and currently exceeds earnings per share. Two standouts are Black & Decker and John H. Harland Company. Then he hunted for companies that have recorded double-digit earnings growth but whose free cash flow has been falling. Among them, Expeditors International of Washington and Reynolds & Reynolds.

Presents the list of the largest 100 United States multinationals. Revenue; Net profits; Assets; List notables include Exxon Corp., IBM, Ford Motor and General Motors.

Questions the growth of online corporations. The initial public offering of Netscape in 1995; Comparisons of net worth between online corporations and traditional corporations; Entrance of traditional corporations into online commerce; Bond issues at Amazon.com.

The article presents an analysis of an advertisement of Georgia-Pacific Corp. signifying its huge cash flow reserves. It is mentioned that the company has grown extensively and due to its acquisition of a paper company, its cash flows too, have increased substantially. It is mentioned in the advertisement that Georgia-Pacific would be able to pay its debt sooner than most expect.

The article reports that retailer R.H. Macy & Co. is managing its cash-flows soundly. It is noted that Macy's yearly cash flow stands at 18%-plus while that of its competitor Campeau Corp. is under 8%. It is also described as how the downward trend in the retailing business and competition with Campeau Corp. has affected Macy's adversely. Despite financial problems, Macy's ended its year with $150 million surplus cash.