The country needed to expand its economy, and many women here hold a great deal of idle cash.

Market loans reduce the volume of idle cash held by banks.

"The bulls also found the entrance crowded as idle cash stepped up yesterday's buying tempo."

Which other bondholders could suffer a similar fate, of having bond prices drop because another use is suggested for idle cash?

She can obtain loans, insurance and financial planning advice, too, and any idle cash is automatically swept into a money market fund.

Tax havens have been criticized because they often result in the accumulation of idle cash which is expensive and inefficient for companies to repatriate.

Today's Columns Stock mutual funds had more idle cash in early May than at any time in the last two years.

"There is relatively little excuse for sitting around with idle cash on the balance sheet," said David Beim, a finance professor at the Columbia Business School.

Companies discovered that they could obtain funds by selling commercial paper, mostly to other companies with idle cash, at a lower cost than what banks were charging for short-term loans.

Some mutual funds that specialize in smaller stocks, on the other hand, decided to invest idle cash at the last minute rather than confess to missing part of a rally.

They want one institution that can invest their idle cash, raise money for a joint venture, provide director liability insurance and convert Bangkok profits from bahts to greenbacks.

An important part of it was that idle cash - from the sale of securities or dividend payments or any other source - was automatically put into a money market fund.

The funds in question were used to park idle cash in brokerage accounts; the money moved into the funds through automatic "sweeps" of dividends, for example, or proceeds from stock sales.

Still, someone holding a losing position might consider selling now and buying back into it after 31 days, Ms. Landry said, if he or she does not have the idle cash to double up.

Morgan was one of nine firms that were involved in the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars in idle cash for state agencies and local governments in West Virginia.

Behind both cases is a trend that built up in the 1980's, of the corporate treasurer as a profit center, able to use sophisticated techniques to get more money on idle cash while saving money on borrowing.

Even affluent South Africans tend to carry high levels of consumer, mortgage and car debt and have little idle cash, so Econometrix said it would probably take them months to liquidate and export much.

I would immediately ask our Congress lobby for our countries corporations transfer the $2 Trillion in idle cash to the United States Treasury through purchases of US Bonds on a 30 year basis.

In fact, unlikely as it may sound, some Wall Street professionals are now anxious about a quite different possibility: a market "melt-up," in which stock prices explode upward, propelled by program trading and huge amounts of idle cash.

F.C.C. officials say they reduced the contribution level because it appeared that the universal service company had been holding more than $3 billion, and they were concerned that it would be criticized for sitting on so much idle cash.

Henry Luce, the founder of Time Inc., started Sports Illustrated because his company had idle cash, because he was in "an empire-building mood," as one of his executives put it, and because, as Luce himself wrote, the "compass needle always came back to sport."