In the run-up, much of the buying has come from companies repurchasing their own stock.
One of her former students oversees the mortgage-backed securities repurchasing program at the Fed.
By repurchasing Engel Burman's former properties, the venture can use and build on the Bristal brand name.
He expects the company will continue to invest in its basic tower-leasing business, as well as repurchasing more shares.
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Headlines notwithstanding, the average big American firm is issuing shares, not repurchasing them.
Neither is such massive share repurchasing uncommon among tech companies, which tend to reward a lot of employees with stock options.
Other major companies use share repurchasing as a regular annual policy to stabilize or increase market value for their patient investors.
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Expect the Federal Reserve Board to reinstitute its program of bond repurchasing, thereby driving down interest rates on long duration Treasuries.
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In theory it should make no difference whether a company returns cash to its shareholders by repurchasing shares or by raising its dividend.
Nothing that odd about a buyback, but in this case this is the first time Avnet is repurchasing stock in at least a decade.
Later, General Augusto Pinochet's government excluded the Luksics from repurchasing the assets because Andrnico Sr. was considered "tainted" by his dealings with the Allende regime.
The answer to that question depends on the size and type of the company doing the repurchasing, as well as market conditions and other factors.
"We expect that the firm has plenty of leeway to continue repurchasing shares and returning cash to shareholders, " Thompson wrote in a recent research note.
Stock buybacks give executives more flexibility since there is no negative connotation associated with repurchasing fewer shares than allowed by the announced size of the program.
Its algorithm weighs your personal tastes and repurchasing habits against those of your peers: if the code senses you'll be relatively stingy, you'll get a better discount.
The company also confirmed it would be repurchasing up to 150 million shares, replacing a prior 200 million share buyback program that had about 38 million shares remaining.
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Over the short term, Schoenstein expects high-quality companies will take advantage of their robust cash to invest for future growth while simultaneously increasing dividend payments and repurchasing shares.
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Repurchasing shares is a way of returning profits to shareholders.
What was accepted as growth, is more moderate, more geared to a value holding t hat requires free cash flow to be used in repurchasing shares and dividends.
JPMorgan Chase has received regulatory approval to restart its share repurchasing program, which the bank shut down last May after the disastrous losses from the London Whale derivatives trade.
In this context, it is also worth recalling that US corporations have large cash positions that could be used for repurchasing shares, boosting dividends, acquiring businesses or increasing business spending.
Repurchasing the properties also enables the venture to speed the growth of the portfolio to a larger size that would be more attractive to a potential buyer down the line, he said.
Since individual investors using this strategy must wait 30 days before repurchasing any stock sold at a loss to avoid triggering the wash sale rule, these stocks can decline in December and rise in January.
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Business execution was strong, especially in the cable content division, and the company continued its shareholder friendly behavior, both repurchasing a significant amount of stock and announcing that it would be splitting the company into two separate entities.
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He also predicted that Coca-Cola (nyse: KO - news - people ), Berkshire's largest equity position, would begin repurchasing its shares once the stock dropped to a point at which it was selling at 20 times earnings.
Yet given the cash hoarding Scrooges corporations have become over the past two years, it speaks volumes that these very same firms (and the individuals running them) now think the best use of their hard earned cash is in repurchasing their own stock.
Then, as the law currently stands, the government will have to divest itself entirely of the savings bank and the insurance business, though there is nothing to stop it repurchasing them immediately if it has changed its mind about the sale by then.
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Just about every day we see large corporations with strong balance sheets and excess cash flow decide the best use they can make of the money is to return it to shareholders by repurchasing shares that increase the earnings per share behind all the remaining shares.
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