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In this photo combination, Farmers Insurance worker Paul Gaipo looks through tornado-damaged cars to determine which company insured the vehicles at a destroyed strip mall on May 22, 2013, in Moore, Okla., top, and workers prepare footings for a new business building near the site on May 8, 2014, bottom. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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National Edition News cover for May 19, 2014 - Corporations hoard cash away from high U.S. taxes: A customer gets help with products at an Apple store in Beijing, China, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. As part of Apple's new initiative timed to coincide with Tuesday's celebration of the annual Earth Day, it is offering free recycling of all its used products and vows to power all of its stores, offices and data centers with renewable energy to reduce the pollution caused by its devices and online services. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Apple Inc. holds $132 billion in cash abroad, the largest amount by far of any U.S.-based company. Apple and many other American corporations are reinvesting the money they amass into operations in China and other overseas markets that have been growing faster than their U.S. operations. (Associated press)
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Google Inc. is one of the top American brands that is guarding cash in China and other markets overseas rather than reinvesting the billions of dollars in the U.S. (Associated Press)
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Associated Press In 2011, The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. urged banks to better manage the risks of their merchant customers who employ payment processors, such as PayPal, for credit card transactions. The FDIC listed gun retailers as "high risk" along with porn stores and drug paraphernalia shops.