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Big Tech, US egg producers’ stock buybacks enter antitrust spotlight

By Chris May ( May 9, 2025, 21:36 GMT | Comment) -- Meta, Apple and top egg producers’ decisions to repurchase their own stock has become an area of concern for US antitrust enforcers and members of Congress who are flagging the widespread practice as a potential indication of competitive dysfunction in markets. But the real antitrust risk for parties on both ends of major corporate finance pipelines across the US economy will only begin taking focus once enforcers’ theories of harm face a reckoning in the pages of orders issued by US federal judges.Meta, Apple and top egg producers’ decisions to repurchase their own stock has become an area of concern for US antitrust enforcers and members of Congress who are flagging the widespread practice as a potential indication of competitive dysfunction in markets....

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