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To: slacker711 who wrote (149963)	2/9/2013 1:19:07 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

I was curious about the amount of domestic cash that Apple has been generating over the last year. It turns out that Apple had a domestic cash balance of $35 billion at the end of 2011. They now have $45 billion. So they generated $9 billion in cash while buying back $2 billion in shares and about $5 billion in dividends (only 2 payments in 2012). If they view $35 billion in cash domestically as their minimum domestic cash balance, then there isnt going to be much room to do anything without getting a bit fancy with their cash held overseas. Slacker