Home Depot weighed credit rating versus buyback
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Home improvement retailer Home Depot Inc.  said on Wednesday it decided to repurchase $22.5 billion in stock and risk a lower credit rating instead of maintaining its current capital structure.
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Companies from Home Depot to Johnson &  Johnson are borrowing a page from the private equity playbook  by accumulating debt to boost returns -- and Wall Street is  lending a helping hand.
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Commercial and investment banks could see their credit ratings cut if the bond insurers which hedge some of their assets were themselves downgraded, Standard &amp; Poor's said on Tuesday, as billionaire investor Wilbur Ross mulled whether to invest $1 billion or more in the sector.
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U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday as Home Depot Inc.'s  plan for a $22.5 billion share buyback underscored optimism about equity valuations, along with the growing allure of large-cap stocks, including General Electric Co. .
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Does a recent stock buyback mean you should get some Red Hat too?
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Analysts upgraded their ratings on  Wal-Mart Stores Inc.&#39;s  stock, citing the world&#39;s  largest retailer&#39;s plans to curb its U.S. store growth and a  $15 billion share buyback announcement.
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US home buyers may see a slight rise in mortgage rates if housing finance company Fannie Mae, which is mired in an accounting scandal, slows purchases of bonds backed
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The Home Depot Supply transaction may foreshadow upcoming megabuyout deals.
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Home Depot said it would invest $2.2 billion in the company this year, even though it expects a housing slump to lower earnings and curb sales growth.
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Shares of Home Depot Inc.  rose 2  percent on Monday after published reports, citing unnamed  sources, said the home improvement retailer agreed to cut the  price in the sale of its supply unit by $1.8 billion to $8.5  billion.
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Home Depot Inc.  on Friday said in three  instances before December 2000, its stock-option grant price  was lower than the market price, which resulted in an  unrecorded expense of less than &#36;10 million for the period.
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Home improvement retailer Home Depot Inc said on Monday that under a tender offer that expired on August 31, it agreed to buy 289.331 million shares of its common stock for a total value of $10.7 billion.
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These companies' share buybacks could boost earnings per share. Good deal or no deal?
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Shares of Home Depot Inc  were up  1.3 percent on Friday as investors waited for word about  whether a sale was on or off for the home improvement  retailer&#39;s contractor business.
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Home Depot warns of falling profit, but company seems well-positioned to ride out the housing storm.
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Shares of Home Depot Inc. HD.N, the  largest U.S. home improvement retailer, may extend gains amid  solid expected growth in sales of homes and home improvement  products, according to the latest edition of Barron's, the  weekly financial newspaper.
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On aol.com this week, the Internet-based loan company Lending Tree offered "bad credit options" and a $425,000 loan for only $1,376 a month. Countrywide Financial Corp. , the largest US lender, declared "Bad Credit? Call Today. Refinance or Tap into Your Home's Equity" in an online ad from its Full Spectrum Lending Division.