ASML Issues Update of Share Buyback Program Announced on October 17.VELDHOVEN, Netherlands -- ASML Holding ASML is a Dutch company and the world’s primary supplier of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry. Of all the major chip producers worldwide, more than 80% are ASML customers. NV (ASML ASML Abstract State Machine Language ASML Anisotropic Shielded Microstrip Line ) (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ASML) (Amsterdam:ASML) today announces progress in connection with its share buyback program disclosed on October 17, 2007 as follows: * To effect the share buyback, ASML has entered into an agreement with a bank. Under the terms of the agreement, the exact number of shares that are to be purchased by the bank and delivered to ASML, as well as timing of the purchases, is left to the discretion of the bank, within pre-agreed ranges. * During the period from November 19 through November 26, 2007, ASML acquired 5,445,249 of its shares pursuant to the share buyback program, at an average price of EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 22.53 per share. * The aggregate number of shares bought back up to and including November 26, 2007 represents 64.3 percent of the announced objective of 14 million ordinary shares. * ASML's share buyback program was announced on October 17, 2007 and will terminate on, or before September 28, 2008. * The repurchased shares will be used to cover outstanding employee stock options. About ASML ASML is the world's leading provider of lithography lithography (lĭthŏg`rəfē), type of planographic or surface printing. It is distinguished from letterpress (relief) printing and from intaglio printing (in which the design is cut or etched into the plate). systems for the semiconductor industry, manufacturing complex machines that are critical to the production of integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. or chips. Headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, ASML is traded on Euronext Amsterdam and NASDAQ under the symbol ASML. For more information, visit the web site www.asml.com |
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