{"id":74153,"date":"2020-05-17T03:10:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T07:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=74153"},"modified":"2020-05-19T02:07:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T06:07:45","slug":"softbank-oks-4-7-billion-in-stock-buybacks-jack-ma-resigns-from-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2020\/softbank-oks-4-7-billion-in-stock-buybacks-jack-ma-resigns-from-board.html","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank OKs $4.7 billion in stock buybacks; Jack Ma resigns from board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Marketwatch) SoftBank Group Corp. 9984, +1.02% said late Sunday, Eastern time, that longtime board member Jack Ma has resigned, and the company announced up to $4.7 billion in share buybacks. Ma, the co-founder of Alibaba BABA, +1.18%, has long been an ally of SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son on the Japanese conglomerate&#8217;s board of directors<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/softbank-doubles-down-on-stock-buybacks-jack-ma-resigns-from-board-2020-05-17?mod=home-page\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Marketwatch) SoftBank Group Corp. 9984, +1.02% said late Sunday, Eastern time, that longtime board member Jack Ma has resigned, and the company announced up to $4.7 billion in share buybacks. Ma, the co-founder of Alibaba BABA, +1.18%, has long been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74154,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74153\/revisions\/74154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}