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Waters Begins $500M Share Buy-back Program

Mar 01, 2007
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — Waters today said it will buy back $500 million worth of its common stock under a plan authorized by the company’s board of directors in November 2006.
 
The company said the shares will be bought in open market over the next two years.

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