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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft cranks up stock buyback program]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft cranks up stock buyback programFailure Big Time. Stock closed 5 cents lessLet me get this streight. Microsoft is paying 5 cents more than the closing price on Friday. That means the offer extracts wealth overall.Gates is Selling like an Enron ExecutiveSee http://insider.thomsonfn.com/Netscape/insider.asp?imodule=db&ticker=MSFT&ttype=Atell me this is normal. It is not....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:57:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft announced plans for massive stock buyback]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft announced plans for massive stock buybackTsk, tsk...there goes the cash hoard!!You know it's hard times when M$ needs to spend 1/2 of its cash to prop up its stock.  lol  Let the fun begin!Rep told me not to sell...My rep has re-affirmed his strong "BUY" rating on...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:07:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[$456 bln spent on stock buybacks in 2005]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[1,012 US public companies announced $456 bln in stock buybacks in 2005, breaking the previous record set in 2004 when 728 companies said they would repurchase $312 bln worth of their own stock. TrimTabs reported cash takeovers of public companies amounting to $277 bln were announced in 2005, another annual...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:10:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[$346 bln of stock buybacks in Q1-Q3 2005]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to TrimTabs Investment Research, the total amount of buybacks announced by US companies in 2005 through October hit $346 bln, up 51% from the same period in 2004. Thomson Financial says 2005 marks the largest year for corporate stock buybacks since the heady days of the late 1990s.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2005 14:10:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft to offer dividend, launch stock buyback]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft to offer dividend, launch stock buybackBuying back stockNow if Gates gets his hands on $30 BILLION in stock, how does that make Microsoft less a threat? If it is consolidated into a few persons' accounts, then doesn't that increase the possibility of abuse since there would no longer be...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:40:00 -0700</pubDate>
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