if you do find cash as not , apple hassecurities some a closer to about 20 billion. if you look at the overall trend, the white line here is showing the top five most cash rich companies in the s&p 500 and 25 companies that have the most cash. then you're looking at the bars that shows what happens in the rest of the market. when you look at cash altogether, it is going up. we look at what is happening at your average company, this is on.ly what is going the past couple quarters were by no means at low cash levels. there is a bit of a takedown for your typical company when you think about why. i jumped of buybacks, shareholder payout ratios, eroding earnings don't help. it will be important to figure out the fundamental balance sheet situation. very interesting chart given the importance of buybacks to this market. i'm looking at a 10 day chart of amazon.com shares. you can see they basically have moved in tandem and you are probably thinking why are you shilling these things? what possible connection could there be between a precious metal and amazon and you are rig