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$4 Trillion of Corporate Equity Liquidated Since 2000

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There’s Only One Buyer Keeping S&P 500’s Bull Market Alive - $165 billion Buyback

S&P constituents are poised to repurchase as much as $165 billion of stock this quarter, approaching a record reached in 2007. 

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The real, less respectable reason why companies engage in buybacks, namely to boost earnings per share by shrinking the equity.

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