iStar Financial Incorporated (SFI)

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NEW YORK, Aug. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- iStar Financial Inc. (NYSE:SFI - News) announced today that its Board of Directors approved a new stock repurchase program. The program authorizes the Company to repurchase up to $65 million of its common stock from time-to-time in the open market and privately negotiated transactions. The Company intends to enter into a 10b5-1 trading plan through which it may make purchases of its common stock.

The Company's prior stock repurchase program, which had remaining authorization for $12.6 million of buy backs as of June 30, 2011, has been substantially completed.