Chart: Here’s what the U.S.’s largest companies are doing with their cash
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A weak stock market isn’t stopping buybacks. A report this week from S&P Capital IQ found that dividends and buybacks are on trend to hit a new high this year. And that’s after years of increases. For the past decade, S&P Capital IQ estimated that as much as $1 trillion had been spent by S&P 500 companies on buybacks and dividends.