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Record Levels of Corporate Cash: "Greatest Surge Ever Seen". Today, we excerpt from the April issue of Money Fund Intelligence, which ran an article entitled, "Comparing Online Money Market Trading Portals". In it, we're discussing the record levels of corporate cash, and quote Marianne Bamonte of LaSalle MoneyMarkets Express , "It's probably been the greatest surge that I have seen.... We're close to $6 trillion.... Money market funds have been sitting so pretty for awhile now." Citi Online's Elyse Weiner adds, "We know we're looking at historic levels of cash, and there are reasons for it. Now the questions is, 'Is it going to stay or is it going to leave?'"
