Chart of the Day: $116.5m mid-August share buybacks beats July's total

Submitted By:  Luz Wendy Noble Case Study:  No It is the seventh successive month that the $100m buyback treshold has been crossed. This chart from the Singapore Exhange (SGX) shows that share buybacks amounted to $116.5m as total stocks bought totaled 17.71 million shares for the first 12 sessions of August. SGX noted that the amount is already higher compared to July’s whole month buyback consideration of $109m and is more than double from August 2017’s $59.7m buyback record. read more