For those major investors, however, is $23 billion even a significant number? Or is it just a blip on their radar, a routine adjustment their automated trading

For those major investors, however, is $23 billion even a significant number? Or is it just a blip on their radar, a routine adjustment their automated trading systems which were ingesting the various production information feeds acted on? I'm always curious about things like this. $23 billion sounds like a lot of money, but in the case of Apple, wouldn't it just be 'artificial' money? Would anyone outside of the financial services sector be affected in the slightest? Apple employee compensation certainly isn't related in any way, shape, or form to the value they're creating, probably not even the C-level executives have any relationship to that any longer because the numbers are simply "too big".