In One Chart: Stock buybacks top $200 billion in April, the second-highest monthly total since Trump’s tax cuts

(Reuters) - U.S. companies continued a shopping spree for their own shares in May, making $173.6 billion in buyback announcements, the highest monthly total ever, according to a research report......»»

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The streaming service added a record 37 million paid subscribers in 2020, boosting its total members to over 200 million. Netflix Netflix stock surged as much as 15% on Wednesd.....»»

The $2.7 billion budget the Metro board passed Thursday doesn't look much like the one the authority was looking at in April. And it may need to be revisited again in another month, General Manager Paul Wiedefeld told board members at their monthly .....»»

Outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported Thursday that more than 670,000 job cuts were announced in April, the highest total ever. Just over 98% of the cuts were related to the........»»

REUTERS/Yahir Ceballos Mexico continued to see rising levels of violence in March, when the country had 3,000 homicide victims. That was the second highest monthly total since 2006, and April has shown no sign of a decrease even with restrictions.....»»

HP Inc said on Monday it would step up efforts to slash costs and buy back stock, as it seeks investor support to defend against a $35 billion takeover offer from U.S. printer maker Xerox Holdings Corp ......»»

Corporate America is flush with so much cash from President Trump's tax cuts that companies are rewarding shareholders with massive stock buybacks......»»

India Inc's mergers and acquisitions (M&As) tally rose eight-fold to USD 19.1 billion with 40 transactions in April, making it the highest monthly deal value recorded after March 2017, says a report. According to Grant T.....»»

The U.S. trade deficit shrank 2.1% in April — before the Trump tariffs took effect — and tumbled to a seven-month low. But the gap is still on track to widen in 2018 to the highest level in a decade. The deficit declined to $46.2 billion in April......»»

Corporate America, flush with cash from President Trump's tax cuts, is buying back stock at a record pace......»»

At the start of the year, when the impact of Trump's offshore cash repatriation holida.....»»

Apple's second-quarter repurchases rank as the second-highest quarterly buyback among S&P 500 companies ever......»»

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United Renewable Energy (URE) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$1.935 billion (US$62.6 million) for October, the highest monthly level since April 2016 with growth of 89.25% sequentially and 52.14% on year......»»

Automaker to save $4.5 billion through massive job cuts, but it's spent far more than that trying to boost stock price.....»»

Automaker to save $4.5 billion through massive job cuts, but it's spent far more than that trying to boost stock price.....»»

Automaker to save $4.5 billion through massive job cuts, but it's spent far more than that trying to boost stock price.....»»

Automaker to save $4.5 billion through massive job cuts, but it's spent far more than that trying to boost stock price.....»»

In October, Chevron agreed to buy Hess for $53 billion or $171 per share in an all-stock transaction. read more.....»»