In a shaky economy, cash is king — and these S&P 500 companies have it, says Barclays

That’s the message from U.S. equity strategists at Barclays, who highlighted more than a dozen S&P 500 SPX, -3.88% companies with the best cash buffers to ride out any economic slowdown.

Buybacks is where the bulk of the cash is headed toward, with levels at a new all-time high of around $230 billion, led by FANMAG — Meta META, -6.44%, Amazon AMZN, -5.45%, Netflix NFLX, -7.24%, Microsoft MSFT, -4.24%, Apple AAPL, -3.83%, and Google GOOGL, -4.29% — industrials and consumer discretionary.The chart below shows the 25 stock names in the S&P 500 that Barclays expects will have the strongest cash reserves and 25 with that will likely have the weakest through the end of 2022.

Nothing stops/lowers the increase in price of oil, gas, food; inflation will remain high. To fight inflation, Fed will raise interest rate as much as the increase in inflation. High interest rates reduce earnings; hence, kill stocks, create Bear Market, recession. It'll get worse

Nothing stops or slows down the increase in the price of oil, gas, food; so inflation will remain high. To fight inflation, Fed will raise interest rate as much as the increase in inflation. High interest rates reduce earnings; hence, kill stocks, create Bear Market & recession.

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