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S&P 500 Buybacks $1.2 Trillion Are Sedating the Market, Not Rewarding It

Salesforce's record $25 billion accelerated repurchase, funded partly by debt while it halved its cash-flow guidance, epitomizes a 2026 market on pace for S&P 500 buybacks $1.2 trillion that reward share-count math over real growth.

5 Jul 2026 ·8 min read
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