RE:share buy back
Well, if memory serves, SVC issued/sold a whack of new shares at $3.30. If I am correct, the net/net of all this is that SVC reaped the cash from the $3.30 per share sale and is now buying some of them back in the $2.90 approx. range -- a good move for the company given the assumed profit from these transactions, plus the beneficial effect of removing shares from the market.