Buyback

FORTUNE -- Here's another example of how on Wall Street for the big banks it's heads they win, tails they win. Even as Facebook's shares dropped, causing losses for regular investors, Morgan and other underwriters of the company's IPO likely racked up...

NEW YORK (AP) — Apple, already the world's most valuable company, hit the $600 billion level for the first time Tuesday. Only one other company has been worth $600 billion — Apple's old sparring partner Microsoft Corp. It reached that...

Apple on Monday announced plans for much of the $97.1 billion in cash it has accumulated from massive iPod, iPhone, iPadand Macintosh sales. The company said it would begin giving shareholders a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share sometime its fiscal...

Apple today announced what many were expecting, given its huge war chest of around $100 billion in cash: future stock dividends and a stock repurchasing program. The company released the news in a conference call early Monday. It's amassed a huge pile of...

Baltimore-based FTI Consulting Inc. said it increased profits by more than 50 percent last year, driven in part by strong growth in its business consulting divisions in Latin America and Asia. The company reported net income of $103.9 million last year,...

Harley-Davidson, Inc. (NYSE: HOG) reported a strong finish to 2011, with improved fourth-quarter performance capping a year of earnings and dealer retail sales growth. Income from continuing operations was $54.6 million, or $0.24 per share, in the fourth...

The S&P is up 12 percent so far this year, a relief from 2011's flat growth. Still, it's not the time to dump all of your inheritance into the stock market, South Florida financial planners say. There’s a risk of a downturn although many investors...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Stiefel Laboratories, a subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline, and the subsidiary’s former chief executive of defrauding employees and other shareholders by buying back the company’s private stock...