{"id":655375,"date":"2013-04-30T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T19:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=476924"},"modified":"2013-04-30T15:00:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T19:00:57","slug":"apple-sells-17-billion-in-bonds-to-help-fund-massive-100-billion-return-to-shareholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/655375","title":{"rendered":"Apple sells $17 billion in bonds to help fund massive $100 billion return to shareholders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/30\/apple-bond-sale-17-billion-dollars\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/apple-sign-colors.jpeg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple Bond Sales $17 Billion\" title=\"Apple Bond Sales $17 Billion\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Apple appreciates its shareholders so much that it&#8217;s willing to issue $17 billion in debt just so it can return more cash to them. <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324482504578454691936382274.html\"><em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> reports<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> on Tuesday sold $17 billion in bonds, which the publication says is &#8220;a record amount for a U.S. investment-grade offering.&#8221; The <em>Journal<\/em> says that Apple is conducting the massive bond sale as part of its <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/24\/apple-march-quarter-results-analysis-462646\">plan to return $100 billion to its shareholders by the end of 2015<\/a>, which will include <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/04\/12\/following-apple-dividend-google-shareholders-seek-the-same\/\">increasing quarterly dividends<\/a> and buying back $60 billion worth of shares. Apple has decided to issue debt instead of dipping into its own significant cash reserves because strong demand for high-quality corporate debt has given the company a major opportunity to borrow money at low rates, the <em>Journal<\/em> reports.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/_hEMnnMgubw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple appreciates its shareholders so much that it&#8217;s willing to issue $17 billion in debt just so it can return more cash to them. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple on Tuesday sold $17 billion in bonds, which the publication says is &#8220;a record amount for a U.S. investment-grade offering.&#8221; The Journal says that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}