Stock buybacks cause setbacks

Courtesy Marketplace  Tue, 12/30/2008 - 11:56

Companies may have thought buying back their own stock was a good idea a few years ago. But as Mitchell Hartman reports, those companies that used borrowed money to finance those buybacks are in trouble now.


 

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