MarketBeat Week in Review – 08/31 - 09/04

September's market got off to a strong start but drifted lower heading into the long holiday weekend. The bearish catalyst was a red-hot jobs report that some investors took as a signal that the Federal Reserve may rais…

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The Amazing Stock Buyback Phenomenon Continues

This has been a big year for stock buybacks, continuing a return to a trend that started more than two decades ago and was broken only briefly by the crisis in 2008. Focusing just on the S&P 500 companies, buybacks in t…

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