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  • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    Fed signals fewer cuts in 2024

    Share buybacks on the US stock market have dropped to the slowest pace since 2020

  • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
    Companies ease off on share buybacks as rising interest rates push up costs

    Growing pressure to invest and regional banking turmoil also deterred companies from purchasing their own shares

    Trader on floor of New York Stock Exchange
  • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
    Behind the Money podcast18 min listen
    The controversy around share buybacks

    The FT’s US financial editor Brooke Masters explains why share buybacks have become so hotly debated

  • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
    LexHSBC Holdings PLC
    HSBC: Quinn’s defence of the universal model is paying off Premium content

    Chief’s aggressive approach helps the bank over-deliver

    HSBC offices in Canary Wharf
  • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
    HSBC Holdings PLC
    HSBC to launch $2bn share buyback after profit boost from interest rates

    Results strengthen bank’s hand against Ping An’s activist campaign to split business

    Noel Quinn
  • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
    BP PLC
    BP raises dividend despite 70% profit drop

    Second-quarter earnings plunge to $2.6bn on lower refining margins

    BP’s logo at a petrol station in Surrey, England
  • Saturday, 22 July, 2023
    On Wall StreetBrooke Masters
    If companies are going to buy back shares, they should pay a fair price

    Some are entering into oblique contracts with brokers that can cost far more than purchasing on the open market

    Royal Mail staff pulling a trolley through a sorting office in Chelmsford, England
  • Friday, 30 June, 2023
    US banks
    Largest US banks boost dividends after passing stress tests

    JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo among lenders subject to lighter capital requirements

    The seal of the US Federal Reserve’s board of governors in the ground at the board’s building in Washington
  • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
    British American Tobacco PLC
    BAT investors call on tobacco group’s new chief to restart share buybacks

    Cigarette maker launched £2bn stock repurchase programme in 2022 but opted not to renew it this year

    A person selects a Lucky Strike cigarette from a packet
  • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
    Brooke Masters
    Share buybacks need less hate and more scrutiny

    These popular programmes are no substitute for thoughtful investment in growth — and decent pay for staff

    FT montage of the US Securities and Exchange Commission logo on the side of a company’s building
  • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
    Record buyback spree attracts shareholder complaints

    Purchases by the world’s biggest 1,200 companies triple in a decade to rival dividends in scale

    Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
    UniCredit SpA
    UniCredit’s Orcel plays down talk of BPM deal as profits hit a record

    CEO says bank better off returning money to shareholders but analysts expect lender to examine acquisitions

    Unicredit tower in Milan
  • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
    HSBC Holdings PLC
    HSBC announces $2bn share buyback as higher interest rates boost earnings

    Pre-tax profits at UK-based lender triple to $12.9bn in first quarter

    HSBC headquarters in Hong Kong
  • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
    BP PLC
    BP beats profit forecasts but slows share buybacks

    UK energy group leaves dividend unchanged as earnings dip below record 2022 levels

    The BP logo at a fuel station
  • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
    LexAlphabet Inc
    Alphabet: with ad sales down, Google’s head is in the Cloud Premium content

    Cost-cutting and AI competition has forced tech group to redouble its efforts to turn research into services

    The Google logo with the outline of people in front
  • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
    Just Eat Takeaway
    Just Eat Takeaway announces €150mn share buyback as orders fall

    Europe’s biggest food delivery group seeks to appease investors after customers cut back on spending

    Two Just Eat takeaway delivery cyclists in Birmingham
  • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    Jay Powell makes an important change Premium content

    Fed chief says pace of rate rises matters in battle against inflation

  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
    The incredible shrinking equity market

    Buyback to where you once belonged

  • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    Do most buybacks destroy value? Premium content

    Plus, US stocks are expensive

    The New York Stock Exchange building
  • Monday, 27 February, 2023
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    2022 never ended Premium content

    And Buffett on buybacks

  • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
    Standard Chartered PLC
    StanChart chief vows to succeed alone after Abu Dhabi takeover interest

    Bank unveils $1bn share buyback as it prepares to fend off potential First Abu Dhabi Bank bid

    Two people walk pass a StanChart logo
  • Friday, 3 February, 2023
    Lex Populi
    Share buybacks: welcome payments in a suspect currency

    Such moves are hardly a sign of faith in companies

    A selection of Unilever products
  • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
    Darktrace
    Darktrace announces £75mn share buyback after short seller attack

    Move to boost stock comes after hedge fund publishes report alleging accounting irregularities at UK cyber group

    Darktrace logo is seen in the background of a silhouetted woman holding a mobile phone
  • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
    European de-equitisation comes of age

    Well done everyone, trebles all round

  • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
    Exxon Mobil Corp
    ExxonMobil announces $50bn buyback despite political backlash

    US group also expects to increase capital spending but at lower levels than forecast pre-pandemic

    An ExxonMobil gas station in San Francisco, California
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