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Track buybacks with ‘Google Alerts’

By John Schroy, on April 29th, 2007 | 3 comments
Google has useful tools

Google has come out with a new service called Google Alerts that is a great tool for tracking the madness of the US equity market. Sign up and enter the words ’stock buybacks’ and each day your email will bring proof of the lack of market rationality. Googling for ’stock buybacks’ now brings information that suggests that the ‘Buyback Era’ may be drawing to an end.

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