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By Jeffrey Goldfarb
The iPad maker’s $50 bln buyback, as much as the Fed’s easy money, explains surging demand for new equity. Since the depth of the crisis, some $1.4 trln of U.S. share repurchases has far outpaced sales. That should help perfumer Coty and other debutantes looking for buyers.
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