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  • verb Present participle of repurchase.

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Examples

  • The agreement outlines a capital restoration plan and said the bank can begin repurchasing stock from its members following a nearly 10-month stabilization period.

    Home Loan Banks Post Profits Nick Timiraos 2010

  • Separately, the central bank signaled it will curtail the amount of extra funds offered to U.K. financial institutions in its long-term repurchasing operations next week, as money-market conditions normalize.

    Annual CPI Rate 2008

  • He points out that the ECB is doing a virtually endless long-term repurchasing operation, or LTRO, which allows banks to borrow at 1% for three years.

    Forbes.com: News The Street 2012

  • Overall, the idea of repurchasing shares by raising debt gives way to ample concerns over the financials of the company, since organizations execute buyback activity with their surplus cash flows.

    Nasdaq's Notes to Fund Buyback - Yahoo! Finance 2010

  • (Wikipedia) In English, the word refers to the "repurchasing" or buying back, a throw-back to the Old Testament where it referred to the ransom of slaves (Exodus 21: 8).

    The Redeemed Kennedy? 2009

  • However when I tried "repurchasing" Simplify Media, a formerly free app that is now $3.99 or something, it didn't seem to behave the same way, so I backed out before committing to it.

    Discussions: Message List - root 2009

  • Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations, said he has instructed the panel to determine whether companies that took advantage of the tax holiday used the cash to create jobs, as Congress had intended, or used it for other purposes, such as repurchasing their own stock, as one study suggests.

    ModerateVoters.org 2009

  • Yet while J.P. Morgan has just received a green light from the Federal Reserve to increase its dividend to shareholders and begin repurchasing its own shares, Barclays faces considerable regulatory uncertainty.

    Will Barclays Turn Its Back on Britain? Simon Nixon 2011

  • Ally also has reviewed so-called put-back claims by FGIC "in the normal course" of business and has "met our contractual obligations at all times, including repurchasing loans where a claim was valid," Ms. Proia wrote.

    Bond Insurer FGIC Sues Ally Units Over Mortgage Securities Andrew R. Johnson 2011

  • In recent sessions, bond prices have been weighed by concerns that the RBI would stop repurchasing bonds to infuse cash as it had lowered banks' minimum cash requirement instead.

    RBI: More CRR Cuts an Option to Boost Liquidity Prasanta Sahu 2012

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