Sentence examples for repurchases from inspiring English sources

The Fed should consider a quiet halt to share repurchases at all of the large banks.

But Mr Easterbook did not explain how he is planning to fund these share repurchases.

Tencent, a Chinese internet giant whose billionaire boss, Ma Huateng, has a seat in the National People's Congress, now regularly repurchases its stock.

Mr Gerstner repeatedly used all kinds of accounting tricks, involving asset sales, share repurchases and gains from the company's vast pension fund, to meet profit targets.

Managers are reluctant to increase dividends in the face of a transient boost to profits, lest they have to cut their payments in later years a signal that is taken badly by the markets.Mr Montier finds a close correlation between net repurchases of equity in the American market and the deviation of earnings from their trend value.

By the early 1880s the federal government was running large and seemingly intractable fiscal surpluses: revenues exceeded expenditures (including debt service and repurchases) by over 40 percent during that decade.

However, what is more important is that the cash they spend on repurchases could often have been used on expanding into new markets, or on research and development, to generate long-term growth.

Its capital investment has fallen by two-thirds and it is investing heavily in something else: its own shares.Since 2008 it has spent 28 cents of every dollar of cashflow on dividends and a further 52 cents on share repurchases.

The stockmarket seems to agree: Home Depot's shares have trebled since 2010 and are at an all-time high.In this section The repurchase revolution Reluctant reformation It's not about time Hire purpose An American in Paris The China wave ReprintsThat story, of sluggish investment despite low interest rates, and huge share repurchases, is broadly true of all of corporate America.

Large-scale repurchases, by contrast, are the province of a relatively few firms.Typically, buyback announcements are greeted favourably by the market.

One study found that a doubling of repurchases leads to an 8% fall in spending on R&D.Terms and conditionsAll this is not to say that we should start chanting: "Short-term good, long-term bad".