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Companies have record amounts of cash to spend: $1.9 trillion. How can they put it to the best use to keep stock markets booming?

Equity investors have ample reason to be frustrated these days. The S&P 500 has hovered around 1,080 since mid-May, but it hasn't been a quiet ride. Oliver Pursche, president of Gary Goldberg Financial Services, talks about how you can smooth out the bumps of short-term volatility.