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WSJ: Apple’s march to $1 trillion (video)

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A flash from the not-so-distant past from the Wall Street Journal. Yes, the Wall Street Journal.

 

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My take: I find it ironic that this rags-to-riches video from last summer was tucked into the latest piece by the Journal’s Tripp Mickle, whose drumbeat reporting on investors’ “deepening worries” this fall helped take a $215 billion bite out of Apple’s rapidly fading $1 trillion valuation.

Cue the market cap fever chart:

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