repurchase
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Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas raised its benchmark overnight reverse repurchase rate to 5.00% from 4.75%, diverging from some regional peers, including Bank Indonesia and Bank of Thailand, which left their rates unchanged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The 10-year Treasury yield fell to 4.651% from 4.682% before the repurchase news.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
A highlight was the repurchase of $4.5 billion of shares in the second quarter.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
The company spent $349.6 million to repurchase 478 shares of Class A common stock at a weighted average price of $731,389.41 during the second quarter, with the bulk of those purchases coming in June.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 8, 2026
Kabuo pulled into a turnout one rainy afternoon and explained to her in grave tones that he intended to repurchase his parents’ property as soon as the chance arose.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
The company repurchased $2.2 billion in stock during the second quarter and allocated $1.1 billion to dividend payments, having poured $54.6 billion into capital returns since launching its program in 2022.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Assuming that it continues to repurchase shares, combined with the $52.7 million repurchased during the fiscal third quarter, this represents a 1.1% return of capital to shareholders.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
The company repurchased around $100 million of stock in the first quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Of the hyperscalers, only Microsoft repurchased stock in the March quarter, and at a roughly equivalent rate to what it had done a year before.
From MarketWatch ● May 10, 2026
After she was recaptured, Ellen was sold to slave traders but was later repurchased by abolitionists and taken north.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
The rest of the transfer was carried out by selling the gold in New York, and repurchasing it in London, the bank said, external.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Okta has committed to buying back up to $1 billion in stock, and spent $248 million repurchasing shares during the first quarter.
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026
Its situation highlights a dilemma for companies with ample earnings whose stocks look fully valued: Do they continue repurchasing stock, or do they reduce or pause buyback programs?
From Barron's ● Apr. 15, 2026
BDCs trading at discounts of 10% or more—and especially those at 25%-plus discounts—ought to be repurchasing stock.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
More than half of this was devoted to repurchasing that part of the estate at Schoenhausen which had been sold when he was a young man.
From Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire by James Wycliffe Headlam
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