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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Exacctnt who wrote (43174)4/24/2000 12:09:00 PM
From: lin huan chen  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 74651
 
MSFT cannot buy back stock because of accounting regulations resulting from its pooling of interest acquisition of Visio early this year.
Pooling of interest does not mean you can not buy back your stocks. It just does not have tax benefit if I remember that right.