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  2. 7 Reasons Stock Buybacks Should Be Illegal - AOL

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    Editor's note: This story was previously published in February 2019 It has since been updated and republished.Did you know that stock buybacks were illegal until 1982? It's true.Source ...

  3. What are stock buybacks and why do companies use them? - AOL

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    A stock buyback, or share repurchase, is when a company repurchases its own stock, reducing the total number of shares outstanding. In effect, buybacks “re-slice the pie” of profits into fewer ...

  4. Share repurchase - Wikipedia

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    The most common share repurchase method in the United States is the open-market stock repurchase, representing almost 95% of all repurchases. A firm will announce that it will repurchase some shares in the open market from time to time as market conditions dictate and maintains the option of deciding whether, when, and how much to repurchase.

  5. ‘We are essentially in a new Gilded Age’: As workers get laid ...

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    In the 1980s, stock buybacks, once banned as a form of stock manipulation, became legal. Tamir says this change, specifically, allowed companies to inflate their stock prices.

  6. How Stock Buybacks Work and Why Companies Do Them - AOL

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  7. The truth about record-high stock buybacks - AOL

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  8. Securities and Exchange Commission (Philippines) - Wikipedia

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    The Securities and Exchange Commission (Filipino: Komisyon sa mga Panagot at Palitan; SEC) is the agency of the government of the Philippines charged with the registration and supervision of corporations and securities, as well as capital market institutions and participants, in the Philippines. The commission promotes investor protection in ...

  9. Why regulating stock buybacks is misguided | Opinion - AOL

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