{"id":32244,"date":"2019-02-07T23:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T23:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32244"},"modified":"2019-02-07T23:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T23:22:15","slug":"investors-love-softbank-ceos-warren-buffett-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32244","title":{"rendered":"Investors love Softbank CEO&#8217;s Warren Buffett move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN Business)<\/cite>SoftBank CEO Masa Son has taken a page out of Warren Buffett&#8217;s playbook, sending the Japanese company&#8217;s shares soaring.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Shares in <span>SoftBank Group<\/span> <span>(<span class=\"inlink_chart\"><a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=SFTBY&#038;source=story_quote_link\" class=\"inlink\">SFTBY<\/a><\/span>)<\/span> spiked nearly 18% in Tokyo on Thursday after the company announced it would buy back as much as 600 billion yen ($5.5 billion) of its own shares in the next year.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;We like this plan,&#8221; Atul Goyal, an analyst at investment bank Jefferies, said in a note to clients Wednesday. &#8220;We have long argued that Softbank must take cues from Berkshire Hathaway.&#8221; Buffett&#8217;s company has <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/07\/18\/investing\/warren-buffett-berkshire-hathaway-stock-buyback\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">a policy to buy back its shares<\/a> if the price falls below a certain level.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN Business)SoftBank CEO Masa Son has taken a page out of Warren Buffett&#8217;s playbook, sending the Japanese company&#8217;s shares soaring.Shares in SoftBank Group (SFTBY) spiked nearly 18% in Tokyo on Thursday after the company announced it would buy back as much as 600 billion yen ($5.5 billion) of its own shares in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}