Barrick Completes TSX Filing for Share Buyback Program.Business Editors TORONTO, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 2003 All amounts in United States dollars Barrick Gold Corporation announced today that it has completed the filing necessary to allow purchases of its common shares through the facilities of the Toronto Stock Exchange Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options. commencing May 22, 2003 and ending no later than May 21, 2004. Barrick has previously finalized the filings required to permit it to commence purchases on 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. . 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 US$500 million for that purpose. As of April 30, 2003, Barrick had 541,460,118 common shares outstanding. Shares purchased under the program will be cancelled. 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 New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , London and Swiss stock exchanges and the Paris Bourse. |
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