Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)

Is the Worst Over for Apple?

Posted: May 25, 2019 at 9:10 am

At this point, the Huawei ban in the United States and its ripple impact have been front and center, the "poster child" for the U.S.-China trade war. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
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Qualcomm’s Not So Good, Very Bad Day Could Get a Lot Worse If Apple Demands a Do-Over

Posted: May 22, 2019 at 12:44 pm

Last month, Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced a settlement in the long-running dispute between the two companies over Qualcomm's licensing fees for its modem chips. ...
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Apple, Ford and Other Consumer Goods Stocks With Recent Golden Crosses

Posted: May 21, 2019 at 7:40 am

Golden crosses and death crosses are common signals in technical analysis and refer to the relationship between short-term and long-term moving averages. The golden cross typically is seen as a ...
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Why Apple slid nearly 2.5% in premarket trading Monday

Posted: May 20, 2019 at 9:05 am

From TheStreet: ‘Apple Slides on HSBC Price Target Cut Linked to Tariff-Triggered iPhone Concerns’   Apple Inc. shares were indicated lower in pre-market trading Monday after analysts at HSBC ...
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WSJ: Apple TV is ‘a bunch of good ideas that never had a chance’

Posted: May 20, 2019 at 7:05 am

Personal Technology columnist David Pierce has seen the future of television and it doesn’t work.   From “Not Even Apple Can Clean Up the Mess of Streaming TV” ($) ...
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Apple Park: Lady Gaga on the rainbow stage (best video)

Posted: May 19, 2019 at 9:05 am

Why Jony Ive sweated the details and Tim Cook spared no expense.   From Mashable: The singer and actress performed a special private concert for Apple employees on Friday ...
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‘Sometimes Apple acts like a spoiled brat’

Posted: May 17, 2019 at 11:05 am

About those rainbow arches that frame Apple’s inner-spaceship stage…   From Cult of Mac’s How (and why) Jony Ive built the mysterious rainbow Apple Stage: The structure’s aluminum frames ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Apple, Applied Materials, Camping World, CarMax, Ensco, Foot Locker, Under Armour, Wayfair, Walmart and More

Posted: May 17, 2019 at 8:55 am

Stocks had been staging a recovery rally all week after Monday's sell-off, but the Dow Jones industrials were indicated down about 200 points and the S&P 500 was indicated down about ...
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Conservative website attacks Apple’s Tim Cook as ‘arrogant’

Posted: May 17, 2019 at 8:05 am

From Peter Flaherty’s “Tim Cook is not ‘Political,’ just arrogant,” posted Thursday on Townhall.com:   Apple CEO Tim Cook claimed recently that he and his company do not engage ...
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Horace Dediu takes a deep dive into Apple’s ‘pivot’

Posted: May 16, 2019 at 8:05 am

“The iPhone is the most successful product of all time.”   From Dediu’s “The Pivot,” posted on Asymco Thursday: There are about 1 billion iPhone users. Economically speaking, iPhone ...
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Warren Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Make Key Changes to 2019 Stock Picks

Posted: May 15, 2019 at 5:19 pm

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) has released its public equity holdings as of March 31, 2019. Warren Buffett still runs Berkshire Hathaway and, as he is one of the richest ...
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Toni Sacconaghi: ‘People don’t want iPhones this cycle’ (video)

Posted: May 15, 2019 at 1:05 pm

Bernstein’s top Apple analyst says the next cycle won’t start before late 2020.   Found in the CNBC archives from May 1. Missed it the first time around. From ...
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Merrill Lynch: Apple’s pullback is a buying opportunity

Posted: May 15, 2019 at 9:05 am

Wamsi Mohan led a team of analysts who took a deep look at the cost if moving Apple’s manufacturing out of China.   The executive summary of a note ...
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These American Companies Have the Most to Lose from the China Trade War

Posted: May 14, 2019 at 10:10 am

The trade skirmish between China and the United States has become a full-blown trade war. The United States has raised tariffs on $200 billion Chinese goods from 10% to 25%. ...
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When Apple v. Pepper goes to trial, Apple likely to win

Posted: May 14, 2019 at 6:05 am

So say Gene Munster and Apple. But they’ve been wrong before.   Excerpts from notes and commentary that landed on my desktop. More as they come in. Gene Munster, ...
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