
Do Stock Buybacks Really Shrink Capital Spending?
Thanks to soaring corporate cash, capex has improved lately, but share repurchases still overshadow it.
Controversial 2017 contribution of $3.5 billion in company shares to the retirement program apparently was divested, long before the current share-tanking mess.
Unexciting economic growth and the Chinese virus are among the ills that could ruin predictions of an electrifying rebound.
Thriving economy and trade war pause aid carriers, despite loss of tainted plane.
Shareholder lawsuits accuse plane maker of concealing safety problems.
Venerable price-measured index benefits from good news for aerospace giant and its soaring stock.
Move is expected to eliminate mandatory pension funding through 2021.