__/ [ squishy ] on Friday 18 May 2007 08:36 \__
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> "John Bailo" <jabailo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:JaSdndzv5_OKudDbnZ2dnUVZ_uninZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> Where the Big Buybacks Are
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>>> | Here are five companies with outsize share repurchase programs,
>>> including | ExxonMobil, GE, Microsoft, and Goldman
>>> |
>>> | [...]
>>> |
>>> | But with the stock stuck for years in a narrow trading range, the
>>> | company [MSFT] has embarked on an ambitious buyback program. In 2005
>>> and
>>> | 2006, the company repurchased $27.3 billion of its own stock.
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>> Reminds me of that Will Farrell yoga skit where he....well, you know.
>
> Maybe they're thinking of going private. That way there will be even less
> government oversight than now.
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> If that happens, you ain't seen nothin' yet from MS's dark side.
Soros doubled his (not so large) investment yesterday. He's the exception
though...
RESEARCH ALERT-Microsoft off Conviction Buy List: GS
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| Goldman Sachs removed Microsoft Corp. from the America's Conviction
| Buy List, adding changing technologies and business models could
| hit Microsoft's position in desktops, and deplete its "cash cow".
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| Investors continue to be nervous about the uncertainty over the
| software giant's spending plans in 2008 and on recent negative
| comments from Microsoft on the operating system Vista, the brokerage
| said in a research note.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070410:MTFH84459_2007-04-10_13-08-45_BNG222557&type=comktNews&rpc=44
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