Columnists, including yours truly, have viewed announcements of stock buyback plans by Internet companies as public relations stunts aimed at boosting the share price.
Yet that is not how many will view the announcement.
From this view, the announcement, as precipitous as it might have appeared, was part of a considered grand plan of rehabilitation and preparation that would position her as the strongest possible challenger to President Obama in 2012.
Observers may view the announcement that Disney has bought Lucasfilm, the company owned by Star Wars creator George Lucas, as a signal that the new trilogy of films due to arrive in 2015 will be a vapid confection.
And that is probably a good light in which to view the announcement that the "3 by 5" initiative to get 3m HIV-positive people in poor and middle-income countries on to anti-retroviral drugs by the end of 2005 has got rather less than halfway there.
"We do not view this announcement as a surprise as GE has emphasized its strategy to grow its commercial finance asset and customer base," Goldman said.
No doubt there are some in the purist classical world who will view the announcement as a cynical attempt to lure audiences who wouldn't usually be seen dead at an opera house.
So earlier this month when Levi Strauss & Company (LS&CO) released their 2012 Climate Change Strategy (view the announcement or download the PDF), it seems counterintuitive that so little media fanfare accompanied the launch.
"I view the announcement of the FDA to approve the AquaBounty GE salmon for production in land based system as a huge win-win for the environment, consumers, and the process!" William Muir, an animal genetics professor at Purdue University, told GLP sister organization GENeS (Genetic Expert News Service).
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Many investors had viewed that announcement as a potential prelude to further steps.
