Barrick Completes Filing For Share Buyback Program.Business Editors TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2003 All amounts in United States dollars Barrick Gold Corporation announced today that it has completed filings with securities regulatory authorities necessary to allow purchases of its common shares through the facilities of the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. commencing May 20, 2003. Barrick is now finalizing documentation for filing with the Toronto Stock Exchange Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options. to permit it to commence purchases on that Exchange. The Company announced on May 7, 2003, that it planned a share buyback program of up to 35 million shares (approximately 7% of its public float) and had allocated up to $500 million for that purpose. Barrick is one of the world's leading gold producers and trades under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors ABX ABX Antibiotics ABX Airborne Express ABX Abstracting ABX Albury, New South Wales, Australia - Albury (Airport Code) ABX Automatic Branch Exchange ABx Non-Antibiotics ABX Asset Backed Securities Index ABX Acoustic Bass Extension on the Toronto, New York, London and Swiss stock exchanges and the Paris Bourse. |
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