Is All Lost? Record Share Buybacks But Stocks Get Crushed by Wolf Richter • Dec 18, 2018 • 98 Comments The vengeance of share buybacks: buyback queen Apple plunges.
After Wasting $14 billion on Share-Buybacks, GM Prepares for Carmageddon & Shift to EVs, Cuts Employees, Closes 8 Plants by Wolf Richter • Nov 26, 2018 • 192 Comments A big shift, at a cost of $3.8 billion – which it now has to borrow.
This is What Retail Investors Did with GE This Year as it Plunged by Wolf Richter • Nov 9, 2018 • 69 Comments Lured by the siren song of a “buying opportunity” and a fat yield.
Where the Heck are Share Buybacks in This Rotten Market? by Wolf Richter • Nov 2, 2018 • 71 Comments The myth of the “blackout period.” And the price of “unlocking value.”
My “Free” Advice for Sears Holding CEO Eddie Lampert by Wolf Richter • Sep 14, 2018 • 103 Comments “Don’t write any more blog posts to blame pensioners for the collapse of Sears Holding after you wasted $5.8 billion on share buybacks.”
Walgreens Hit by Dropping Same-Store Sales, Amazon Effect, Offers $10 billion in Financial Engineering, Shares Plunge 10% by Wolf Richter • Jun 28, 2018 • 41 Comments Brick & Mortar Meltdown: Dog of the Dow on 3rd Day in the Dow.
Huge New Prop under the Stock Market is a One-Time Affair by Wolf Richter • Jun 5, 2018 • 87 Comments Crash insurance with an expiration date. But its working while it lasts.
Why I Think the Stock Market Cannot Crash in 2018 by Wolf Richter • May 13, 2018 • 149 Comments But the crash-insurance policy is a one-time deal. And then what?
Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Lay Off 10% of its Staff by Wolf Richter • Sep 22, 2017 • 173 Comments Master of share-buybacks and revenue-shrinkage does what it does best.
Mega-Banks Blow 100% of Earnings on Share-Buybacks & Dividends, Crimp Lending, Constrain Economy by Wolf Richter • Aug 2, 2017 • 94 Comments “Real economy has little to gain, and much to lose”: FDIC’s Hoenig to Senate.
