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Apple Is Now More Than Double the Size of Exxon—And Everyone Else
Wall Street Journal Moneybeat ^ | By KEVIN KINGSBURY | By KEVIN KINGSBURY

Posted on 02/23/2015 11:55:40 PM PST by Swordmaker

Just how ginormous is Apple Inc. now?

As the iPhone-maker’s shares continue to set fresh record highs, its market cap is now above $765 billion. Combined with Exxon Mobil Corp.'s pullback over the past six months, Apple has pulled off the rare occurrence of being worth at least double any other publicly traded U.S. company. No. 2 Exxon’s market cap has eased to $374 billion.

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To: central_va

So you disrupt threads on FR to punish Apple?


161 posted on 02/24/2015 11:29:14 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: BunnySlippers

I don’t think you free traitors have though this through all the way to its conclusion. How much are you going to defend Apple when/if we have a hot war with China? Let’s say you own Apple stock, are you going to be a staunch US supporter if your assets are in a Chinese-America conglomerate? Where are your allegiances going to reside then? Can I trust you - as an American then?


162 posted on 02/24/2015 11:31:08 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: BunnySlippers

If you don’t like it, don’t read it.


163 posted on 02/24/2015 11:31:41 AM PST by tacticalogic
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To: Swordmaker

"We're bigger than that."

164 posted on 02/24/2015 11:32:07 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: central_va

You should concentrate on businesses who are doing nothing about it, versus Apple who is doing something about it.

BUT THEN AGAIN, that’s the sign of an APPLE-HATER TROLL, in that they are so “concerned” about Apple, who is doing something, while totally ignoring gross violators.

Of course ... they are a “CONCERN TROLL” ... LOL ...


165 posted on 02/24/2015 11:35:09 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: tacticalogic

Your APPLE-HATER CULT doesn’t seem to have found the bottom ... :-) ...


166 posted on 02/24/2015 11:36:07 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: tacticalogic

Well ... BunnySlippers ... one of the FIRST TENETS of an APPLE-HATER TROLL ... is ...

“We don’t owe you NO STINKIN’ EXPLANATION for our TROLLING!”

... LOL ...


167 posted on 02/24/2015 11:39:10 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: BunnySlippers

Ping here ...


168 posted on 02/24/2015 11:40:33 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: BunnySlippers; central_va

The thing about that ... is ... Apple is doing something about it, and they are FIRST among all those similar companies in doing something about it. But, of course, that doesn’t ever make any difference to a CONCERN TROLL ... :-) ...


169 posted on 02/24/2015 11:43:46 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler

Yeah, no kidding.

He used to have a leader, PPS who predicted that Apple would go out of business in a year or so ... that was back then.

He hated the iPhone and the iPod particularly as I recall.

I’m sure his head exploded due to all of the total nonsense he spread. Hopefully, it will happen to the others.


170 posted on 02/24/2015 11:45:29 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: central_va; BunnySlippers

I guess in that event Walmart will have to shut down all its stores since about 80% of the products there come from CHINA ... :-) ...

HECK! Retailing in the USA will have to call for an extended holiday, in that regard, until the war is over! ... LOL ...


171 posted on 02/24/2015 11:47:28 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler
There are not enough IDIOTS in Texas for that to happen ... :-) ...

Not yet but soon Texans will be a minority in their own state something that will be a reality in the USA shortly after that.

172 posted on 02/24/2015 11:48:30 AM PST by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. $.98-$.89<$.10)
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To: Star Traveler
I guess in that event Walmart will have to shut down all its stores since about 80% of the products there come from CHINA ... :-) ...

In the short term that would cause pain, in the long term the best hing that could ever happen.

173 posted on 02/24/2015 11:49:32 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: itsahoot

All I can say is that the fence better get built QUICK and we better be enforcing those immigration laws and getting these ILLEGAL ALIENS outta here!


174 posted on 02/24/2015 11:52:18 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Captain Peter Blood
in the long run I would rather own Exxon.

Fortunately for you they actually sell stock for Exxon or you can buy any other stock that appeals to you, at least currently you can as of yet there is no window that requires you to buy Apple, how cool is that?

175 posted on 02/24/2015 11:53:38 AM PST by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. $.98-$.89<$.10)
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To: tacticalogic
If everyone you call an "Apple hater" didn't show up

There would be zero mention of Android or Windows.

Go start an Android ping list and see how many Apple pingers show up, I would hope none, but since I wouldn't be there some one would have to report to me whether I was right.

176 posted on 02/24/2015 12:00:16 PM PST by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. $.98-$.89<$.10)
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To: central_va

No comment on the numbers I posted?


177 posted on 02/24/2015 12:05:55 PM PST by Wyatt's Torch
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To: BunnySlippers

I’m trying to remember who it was that jumped in on these Apple threads over 7 or 8 years ago, up until a year or so ago, predicting that Apple was going to fail any day now. I guess he got tired of his continual “Impending Apple Failure” ... always failing to happen ... :-) ...


178 posted on 02/24/2015 12:06:56 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: itsahoot
There would be zero mention of Android or Windows.

Non-sequitur. I made no mention of either one.

179 posted on 02/24/2015 12:10:16 PM PST by tacticalogic
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To: Wyatt's Torch

Texas added .3% of the GDP. Now remove FedGov’s interference and an independent Texas grows like crazy.


180 posted on 02/24/2015 12:12:31 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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