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$AAPL down 1% pre-market :)
by gchokov 12y ago
$AAPL down 1% pre-market :)
- rjtavares 12y agoThat would value a CEO's sexuality at 6 billion dollars. I sincerely hope that has nothing to do with this news.
- gchokov 12y agoMe too.
- eloisant 12y agoWell, shareholders may fear that some conservative consumers will want to boycott Apple because of that announce. Not completely illogical. Or they think that other shareholders will think that and lead to a drop in the share value.
- rjtavares 12y agoI appreciate the market's crude honesty in evaluating the business impact of events, and I understand why a drop would happen. However, I hope that people aren't evaluating the business impact of this information at 6B, and that it is only a sad coincidence.
- atonse 12y agoApple, among other tech companies, has been championing gay rights pretty publicly for a few years now. Also they've had quite a stance on renewable energy and rebuffed investors that were climate-change deniers. I think the type of people that would boycott Apple over this, have already boycotted apple over the other things.
- apaprocki 12y agoThe Federal Reserve voted yesterday to end quantitative easing (QE3). i.e. They will no longer be buying up instruments to prop up the economy. http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/10/29/end-of-qe3-means-fed-statement-finally-shrinks/ http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/10/29/end-of-qe3-means-f...
- rjtavares 12y agoThank you for restoring my faith in humanity. MSFT, FB, IBM, SAP, HP all seem to be down.
- jambo 12y agoAsked his prediction on what the stock market would do, J.P. Morgan responded: "It will fluctuate".
- jevgeni 12y ago<sarcasm>Because as we all know, financial markets are so good at valuing something correctly.</sarcasm> Cough, CDOs, cough.