Corporate buyback culture is financial engineering not value creation

By Charlotte Pickles

Corporate buyback – in which companies repurchase their own shares, overwhelmingly on the open market – has been rampant for decades, but was boosted after the financial crash by the availability of cheap credit. And while share repurchases fell 20% last year, President Trump’s tax cuts may give buyback renewed impetus.”…

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