Glencore to buy back $1 billion of additional shares
Sept 25 (Reuters) - Commodities trader and miner Glencore (Amsterdam: GX8.AS - news) said on Tuesday it would buy back additional shares worth up to $1 billion, increasing the size of its existing buyback programme which is approaching completion.
Glencore (Frankfurt: 8GC.F - news) , which said in July it would buy back shares worth up to $1 billion in a programme of purchases running to the end of 2018, said the extended programme would go on until the end of Feb. 20, 2019.
(Reporting by Justin George Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Bernard Orr)