Both help to keep share prices aloft as well.
Previous efforts to keep share prices from falling, including interest rate cuts and plans to investigate short sellers, proved unsuccessful.
Having worried about "irrational exuberance" in the stockmarket in 1996, should he indeed, could he have done more to keep share prices at less irrational levels?
Since then, Cendant has agreed to a $2.8 million settlement with shareholders and three former CUC executives have pleaded guilty to inflating profits to keep share prices high.
The debt funded necessary investment, but it also permitted expensive takeovers and allowed corporations to buy back large amounts of their shares - the simplest way to keep share prices high and managers' share options valuable.
Perhaps that's why CEOs don't complain about a system that incentivizes them to keep share prices up rather than invest in what's actually good for their business over the long haul – it ensures their own payday.
After five years, Rai says he is looking to exit from these SRCs but says he is afraid that he won't be able to get a market valuation for his holding because Fabindia wants to keep share price appreciation modest.
Thomas finishes strong to keep share of PGA Tour lead.
