{"id":4066,"date":"2011-07-27T17:00:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T23:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4066"},"modified":"2011-07-27T17:00:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T23:00:27","slug":"six-hundred-billion-of-the-1-24-trillion-held-by-u-s-businesses-is-in-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4066","title":{"rendered":"Six-hundred billion of the $1.24 trillion held by U.S. businesses is in overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/mobile\/sanjose\/news\/2011\/07\/27\/us-businesses-stash-11-more-cash.html?ana=yfcpc\">American City Business Journals<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><I>Six-hundred billion of the $1.24 trillion held by U.S. businesses is in overseas accounts, a matter of debate in Washington over offering tax breaks to encourage repatriation of the money.<\/p>\n<p>Moody&#8217;s said the cash stash grew even though the amount spent on capital improvements, mergers and acquisitions and dividends increased.<\/p>\n<p>Moody\u2019s also said that the U.S. corporate debt-to-cash ratio was the lowest in the last five years at 3.06.<\/I><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American City Business Journals: Six-hundred billion of the $1.24 trillion held by U.S. businesses is in overseas accounts, a matter of debate in Washington over offering tax breaks to encourage repatriation of the money. Moody&#8217;s said the cash stash grew even though the amount spent on capital improvements, mergers and acquisitions and dividends increased. Moody\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}