Apple shares lost 10% of their value.

Then Apple announced plans to buy back $110 billion of its own stock.

After that, Apple shares had their best day since 2022.

There's a reason stock buybacks used to be considered illegal stock manipulations.

They should still be banned.

@rbreich At the very least, stock buybacks ought to have criteria disclosed far in advance and subject to the standard SEC filings.

And CEOs of major corps should not be compensated with stock options. Dividends would be an improvement.