{"id":49515,"date":"2018-12-08T11:05:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T11:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=49515"},"modified":"2018-12-08T11:05:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T11:05:05","slug":"facebook-adds-usd-9-billion-to-share-buyback-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/facebook-adds-usd-9-billion-to-share-buyback-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook adds USD 9 billion to share buyback effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook said on Friday it would add USD 9 billion to its stock buyback programme, which could scoop up shares pummelled over the past few months by privacy scandals and a slump on Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>In a regulatory filing, the leading social network said it added to a USD 15 billion share repurchase programme began in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook shares have slid more than 30 percent in the past few months amid heightened scrutiny of the company and a bruising stock market.<\/p>\n<p>The repurchase programme \u201cdoes not have an expiration date,\u201d the filing said, adding that shares may be repurchased on the open market or through privately negotiated transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has become the world\u2019s biggest social network with more than two billion users, but has drawn scrutiny in the US and elsewhere over privacy practices and manipulation of its platform.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook application has fallen out of favour among young audiences in the US, according to surveys, but its Instagram image-sharing application has taken up some of that slack.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook said on Friday it would add USD 9 billion to its stock buyback programme, which could scoop up shares pummelled over the past few months by privacy scandals and a slump on Wall Street. In a regulatory filing, the leading social network said it added to a USD 15 billion share repurchase programme began [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49517,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49515\/revisions\/49517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}