Tag: stock buybacks

Under SEC rules companies are required to pause stock buybacks about 5 weeks before earnings. Since the end of the great recession in 2009 companies...

“Stability breeds instability.” – Hyman Minsky The answer to the title of this article, the polite version of which is “Buy The Dip or Sell...

The economy is made up of many moving parts including consumer spending, government spending, net exports and investments. For the U.S., and Canada for that...

One of the hallmarks of post-Great Recession recovery has been aggressive stock buybacks. In 2Q16, S&P 500 companies spent $127.5 billion on stock buybacks, down...

The following is a collaborative article by Brett Freeze of Global Technical Analysis & Michael Lebowitz of 720Global. 720 Global has written four articles to date...

Buybacks To Be Put On Hold Corporate stock buyback programs are typically put on hold during the five week period leading up to earnings season....

“The words of men may temporarily suspend but they do not alter the laws of financial dynamics. The fundamentals always take precedence eventually”- 720...

Stock buybacks are a conflict of interest which has been exposed primarily through extravagant levels of executive pay and income inequality. As an extension of...

In my last article on October 5, I discussed how the credit markets were precariously close to signaling another sharp leg down in the...

Late last year as the Federal Reserve was unwinding quantitative easing (QE), there was suspense in the air as to how this might impact...