The buyback boom is raising concerns as companies are returning more cash to shareholders than they are generating in free cash flow.
With Oracle's buybacks exceeding free operating cash-flow generation, S&P is concerned the company will be overleveraged.
Regulators are asking who is ultimately benefiting from share repurchases.
Even as key corporate financial indicators continue to fall, some hope may be emerging that forecasts of an impending recession will prove inaccurate.
The SEC says the bank failed to prevent nonpublic information about clients' stock buybacks from being disclosed to other traders and hedge fund clients.
If oil prices remain at current levels, at some point bond investors may no longer be willing to support the shrinking enterprise.
The new tax break on repatriated foreign earnings will spur increased R&D, a study of an earlier tax holiday suggests.
Instead of debating whether to ban share repurchases, we should focus on how to exclude the impact of buybacks from executive compensation.
The commission will no longer be short-handed after the Senate confirms the appointments of Robert Jackson and Hester Peirce.
CFOs have to ask themselves if share repurchases are really creating value.
Industrial companies are no longer growing their cash reserves, instead deploying it to reward shareholders and invest in capital goods.
