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Still, mortgage buybacks are one bit of new business banks could really do without.

He also said the pace of UBS's share buybacks would decline after recent acquisitions.

And the company has the ability to add debt to pursue share buybacks or other steps to drive per-share earnings.

Companies are increasingly looking to raise funds through equity issues instead of debt and conserve cash by scaling down on share buybacks.

Fourth, banks with excess capital should be able to boost per-share earnings with buybacks.

So some companies borrowed money, turned around and gave it to shareholders in the form of dividends and buybacks.

The obvious solution would be to give cash back to shareholders, either via dividends or share buybacks.

Huge dividends or share buybacks have to be regarded as reckless (even though share prices, as Warren Buffett points out, look cheap).

Dividends or buybacks tend to come as a business matures -- witness Microsoft's belated generosity in recent years.

It matters to the shareholder ultimately as it puts dividends and share buybacks under pressure.

Other powerful forces were at work as well: corporate buybacks and mergers, both of which require access to E-Z credit.

According to data from Thomson Reuters, the volume of global buybacks is down 30 per cent from a year ago.

Investors, most notably BHP's, have called for share buybacks or special dividends to hand the spare cash over to shareholders.

Meanwhile, there is no guarantee that the new eurobonds would attract enough investors to fund the buybacks.

Wennink also said ASML will return extra cash to shareholders via buybacks and dividends, The Wall Street Journal reported.

But Chinese companies generally abhor buybacks, preferring to spend (or squander) cash on growth opportunities.

Companies spent most of the repatriated $300 billion on dividends and stock buybacks, enriching executives and shareholders.

Share buybacks may remove some immediate concern about a potential flood of previously non-tradable shares onto the market.

Even a modicum of spending on mergers, buybacks or dividends could help put a floor under the market, if not do more, they reason.

Mr. Buffett has often been critical of buybacks motivated by factors other than an attractive discount to fair value.

As rivals threw money at new projects or acquisitions, it spent more on share buybacks and dividends than it invested.

DURING the boom, American banks spent surplus profits on share buybacks.

Share buybacks have a mixed record of boosting company stock prices in the long run.

The growth of buybacks in Asia, excluding Japan and Australia, bucks the worldwide trend.

But there is reason to think dividends and buybacks will remain dormant.

Goldman said it plans to step up stock buybacks and may raise its quarterly common stock dividend.

We want to make sure these companies are using cash in productive ways like buybacks, dividend payments or acquisitions.

Over the past decade, when big investors begin agitating in this way, share buybacks have soon followed, the report adds.

Mr. Jobs was opposed to stock buybacks, according to former Apple executives.

Immelt said in May he planned to raise the dividend and increase buybacks by 2011.

Add the dividends paid out during that period to the buybacks, and it comes to about $20 billion.

The board authorised a further $10bn of share buybacks.

Share buybacks in the fiscal year ended March 30 totaled roughly 2. 75 trillion yen, or about double dividend payments.

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