Because they can. Take cash-stuffed German mega-companies, for instance.
They’re buying everything they can find in US-Amerika these days that hasn’t been tied down.
In recent days, two multibillion-dollar deals were announced. On Sunday, the German engineering conglomerate Siemens announced a $7.6 billion acquisition of the Dresser-Rand Group, the United States oil products company. And on Monday morning, Merck of Germany, the chemical and drug giant, said it would pay $17 billion for Sigma-Aldrich, an American life sciences company.
PS: Remember when Japan was going to take over the United States? No, I guess you wouldn’t remember that. Never mind.
Observing Hermann 
thats true.
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It could also be because since 2007 / 2008 they can’t expense-account some of the finer thing in life anymore. http://www.newser.com/story/25422/no-more-expense-account-hookers-for-deutsche-bank.html …Just sayin’ stay classy Deutsche Bank, stay classy.