While this may seem theoretically sensible, in practice it leads to buying back more shares when the market value has increased significantly in response to stronger cash flows.

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Collectively, this leads to more buying, which further raises prices.

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It has a snowball effect which subsequently leads to more users buying.

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That triggers more multi-family starts and leads renter to consider buying.

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Monitoring new leads, looking for buying signals, tracking activity and nurturing the buyer through the initial vendor selection and buyer decision process is often a long and unpredictable period of time and process.

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When they do, this often leads to safe-haven buying of the metal.

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Nurture, nurture, nurture your leads, and score them for buying signals.

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And the fall leads nicely into the Christmas gift-buying season.

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So that the co-leads have a portion of the issue is not proof that the EFSF has been buying its own bonds.

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