Shareholders too may prefer a share buy-back to the uncertain pay-off from an investment programme.
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But no big German firm has yet completed a buy-back, largely because of uncertainty over tax treatment.
These days AMRs balance sheet looks as good as General Motors, and its in a stock buy-back mood, too.
Mr Romney had left Bain to run the Salt Lake City Olympics shortly before the fateful buy-back took place.
For example, a car manufacturer sells you a car with a buy-back option.
His buy-back meant he regained control of the artist roster and back catalogue.
Instead, Best Buy anticipates that most Buy-Back phone deals will be for handsets that are 12 to 18 months old.
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GARCIA-NAVARRO: He says that the government has a slew of programs in the works, such as a weapons buy-back initiative.
And even the six-month wait until the government meets its buy-back promise is vulnerable to legal, contractual and parliamentary haggling.
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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IBM's results on April 29th, combined with news of a huge new share buy-back, sent its shares up by more than 5%.
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.
More powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and faster than a speeding bullet is the dreaded buy-back.
Mordashov's revised offer comes just two days after Arcelor backed down over a planned share buy-back designed to frustrate billionaire steel raja Lakshmi Mittal's approach.
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.
The company has operated a device trade-in program since 2009 but the buy-back program differs because it carries assurance that Best Buy will buy this particular device back, said Dunn.
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.
They focused instead on a stock buy-back plan.
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Shareholders might want to see some of this money themselves, but Mr Zondervan dislikes the idea of a share buy-back because of its tax implications in the Netherlands, but also because he would rather spend the money.
That small amount of profit would come after you received your Buy-Back credit in the form of a Best Buy gift card and absorbed the penalty of breaking your two-year phone contract, commonly known as an early termination fee (ETF).
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What I'm curious about is if this administration is open to the concept suggested by others of a federal buy-back program of, under some circumstance, purchasing back -- as some states have -- ammunition clips, certain types of weapons, other things like that as part of way to deal with two things that are happening.
There are opportunities to buy pull-back and you must have the patience to wait for them.
Sean Owen, director for fixed income at Woodbine and a co-author of the paper, thinks this really could be the year that makes a difference within buy-side back offices.
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Philip Morris Companies Inc. says it may buy back-up electrical generators for key plants, and rent additional warehouse space to stockpile inventory.
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.
You can also play the follow-back game, buy Net ads or pay mom-and-pop services.
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If not, you've probably already missed your chance to pick up one of those three HD-A1s from your local Best Buy, so kick back with your over-the-air, cable or satellite HD, and let someone else fight the format war for you.
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