Standard & Poor's gives Google the U.S. debt treatment

Re:Standard & Poor's gives Google the U.S. debt treatment by wtvanhest on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @03:20AM (#2894451)

epistasis, It depends on your definition of consequential. To me, having $40B in marketable securities & cash is a huge burden. Investing it in Motorola allows them to get a return on that cash which is fairly safe, but not without risk.

While $12B off the balance sheet is a big number, it is not consequential to their operations or anything else they are thinking of doing. Unless they are going to acquire someone even larger.

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Re:Standard & Poor's gives Google the U.S. debt treatment by Tyrannosaurs on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @08:09AM (#2894982)

A return would imply that this bit of Motorola made a profit wouldn't it?

Which it doesn't really.

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