Also what remains is the ongoing earnings from established products in established regions that can grow and new regions.
Actually given the current uncertainties, instability, and increasing risk, including sovereign risk, in the global market holding onto and building cash is smart. Things could be suddenly upturned in ways beyond any companies ability to control for and having a cash reserve in a traditionally stable currency would help with getting past this. When the GFC struck it was in many ways the larger cash reserves our banks had the saved us here in Oz from the worst of it, and saved those businesses that had the same. The ones that didn't, that had optimistically speculated all their cash and had debt instead are now history.
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