Corporations Have Just Reached a Record Level of Debt; Special Report Profit Confidential

Corporate debt has been in a steady climb since 1978 and the total number continues to rise to a record at over $7.6 trillion, according to a recent article by Michael Lombardi, lead contributor to Profit Confidential

New York, NY (prHWY.com) February 27, 2012 - Corporate debt has been in a steady climb since 1978 and the total number continues to rise to a record at over $7.6 trillion, according to a recent article by Michael Lombardi, lead contributor to Profit Confidential (see Warning: Corporate Debt-to-Cash Reaches Record High).

"Corporations have been hesitant to spend their corporate profits because of visibility," says Lombardi. "They simply don't see where the demand for their product/service is going to come from in the future."

Lombardi says that this number is much worse when you take out Apple Inc. As of the end of 2011, Apple had $97.6 billion in cash from corporate profits, with no corporate debt.

"If we remove Apple's cash from non-financial corporations' cash-on-hand, we get $1.9 trillion, and since Apple has no corporate debt, the debt figure remains at $7.6 trillion," says Lombardi. "This means that corporations are sitting on four times more debt than cash-on-hand: $4.00 of corporate debt for every $1.00 of cash earned from corporate profits."

Lombardi believes that corporations remain cautious and have opted to spend their corporate profits on share buybacks and dividends instead.

"Even if we could get this economy growing again, how much can corporations really spend when they are, just like the average consumer, tied down with too much debt?" asks Lombardi.

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Profit Confidential is Lombardi Publishing Corporation's free daily investment e-letter. Written by financial gurus with over 100 years of combined investing experience, Profit Confidential analyzes and comments on the actions of the stock market, precious metals, interest rates, real estate, and the economy. Lombardi Publishing Corporation, founded in 1986, now with over one million customers in 141 countries, is one of the largest consumer information publishers in the world. For more on Lombardi, and to get the popular Profit Confidential e-letter sent to you daily, visit www.profitconfidential.com.

Michael Lombardi, MBA, the lead Profit Confidential editorial contributor, has just released his most recent update of Critical Warning Number Six, a breakthrough video with Lombardi's current predictions for the U.S. economy, stock market, U.S. dollar, euro, interest rates and inflation. To see the video, visit http://www.profitconfidential.com/critical-warning-number-six

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