Lastly, the earnings call would be the time to make an announcement on cash use, either a buy back or a dividend, should Apple decide to do this.
The wash sale rule says that if you sell a stock or mutual fund for a loss and buy back a "substantially identical" security within 31 days of selling it, your loss is disallowed.
Given today's market volatility, waiting more than a month to buy a security back could mean missing some major moves.
In early September, Barrick unveiled a plan to close out fixed hedges and begin to buy back a portion of its floating-price hedges.
My technical indicators triggered a sell signal on February 19, almost exactly at that peak, but had me and my subscribers back on a buy signal in mid-August and back into a 20% position in the gold etf GLD.
It's the practice of selling a borrowed stock expecting to buy it back later at a lower price.
Even be aggressive and leverage the balance sheet to buy back a ton of stock outstanding.
Best Buy offers a Take Back program, where customers can bring in their old electronics for e-cycling.
But no big German firm has yet completed a buy-back, largely because of uncertainty over tax treatment.
For example, a car manufacturer sells you a car with a buy-back option.
Who will not go to a buy back program and turn them in.
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Blockbuster's innovation of a buy-back service for old DVDs, as Blockbuster has done, doesn't look like any way to build a competitive business model.
His 32% stake will increase to 38% after a buy-back of Arcelor shares (decided before the deal with Severstal was concluded), which will shrink the shareholder base.
In normal circumstances, a buy-back boosts earnings per share, making it easier for the company to meet market estimates and for its executives to profit from their stock options.
So, on November 27th, Mr David-Weill said that Eurafrance would begin a buy-back of its shares and would look for other ways to increase their price towards their asset value or better.
If capital-gains tax rates are lower than income-tax rates (as they were in America before George Bush's tax reforms of 2003), an investor may prefer to sell his shares into a buy-back.
Paul Marsh, of the London Business School, says studies suggest that, in the American market, the announcement of a buy-back boosts the share price by around 2%, compared with around half that in Britain.
The Ability-to-Repay rule may help protect mortgage consumers from themselves more than anything else, but it is the market correcting threat of having to buy back a less than completely vetted loan that will keep lenders honest.
These days, though, banks demand bigger down-payments and better credit scores to lessen the risk of having to buy back a delinquent loan from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the now government-controlled agencies that securitise and guarantee most residential mortgages.
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In regular short-selling, the trader borrows shares for a fee from his prime broker and sells them, hoping to buy them back later at a lower price and reap the profit on the difference.
He went back to the negotiating table with the Rose Garden creditors and worked out a deal to buy back the arena in 2007.
Especially since mortgage application to buy a house have sunk back to a 15 year low.
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Shareholders too may prefer a share buy-back to the uncertain pay-off from an investment programme.
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On the positive side, gurus did step in and buy back into a couple of energy-related plays.
These days AMRs balance sheet looks as good as General Motors, and its in a stock buy-back mood, too.
He was also the first person at Southwest to convince Herb Kelleher to buy a computer, way back in 1986.
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The entire cash proceeds of the share issuance will be returned to ASML shareholders (not including participating customers) through a synthetic buy-back.
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We sold all our bank holdings when the Asian crisis started looking serious, but I'm looking to buy them back after a few more shoes drop.
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