Why Gold And Apple Are Tanking At Exactly The Same Time

Apple is down 2%. The big gold ETF, GLD, is down 1.4%.

These moves are happening on a day when the market is basically flat. It’s not an accident that they’re diving together.

The reason is: During the immediate post-crisis era, gold and Apple were huge outperformers, that were uncorrelated to the day-to-day “risk on, risk off” regime that was dominating financial markets.

Remember, investors are desperate to find uncorrelated assets that don’t just [...]

Markets In Sell-Off Mode: Oil Is Getting Slammed, Dow Off 170, 10Y Treasury Yields Slump To 2013 Lows, EUR Tumbles And European Stocks Plunge Most In Six Months, Apple Falls Below $400 A Share… Eiffel Tower Patterns Could Be Forming…35%+ Decline Possible!

Oil Is Getting Slammed

Crude oil prices are getting hit again today.

Right now, WTI crude futures are down 2.7%, trading around $86.30 a barrel.

In the past few minutes, for no obvious reason, oil made a significant move lower.

 

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EUR Tumbles On Weidmann Comment Of Possible Rate Cut

 

European Stocks Plunge Most In Six Months

Worst 4-day run in 10 months in stocks…

 

Apple falls below $400 a share

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Apple Inc.AAPL -5.33% shares continued to [...]

“Apple’s glory days are now behind it,” said FBN’s Shebly Seyrafi

Following last week’s revenue miss, FBN Securities’ Shebly Seyrafi on Thursday morning declared: “Apple’s glory days are now behind it.” (And that’s the view from a bull, mind you.) If that’s true, as many seem quick to believe, it leaves Apple open to the kinds of scrutiny of its cash that has plagued Microsoft for a long time.

Apple ended the quarter with $137 billion in cash and investments, more than [...]

APPLE offers ‘record’ dividend… Blames taxes for overseas cash…

By Jack Hough

Apple’s newly announced dividend payments will transfer around $9.9 billion of its cash to shareholders each year. That shatters the previous record for largest dividend initiation–Cisco last year with $1.3 billion–and it vaults Apple(AAPL) to the No. 2 spot among all companies. AT&T (T) is No. 1, spending $10.4 billion a year on dividends.

Apple also authorized $10 billion for share repurchases, to be spent over three years. Share repurchases reduce the [...]

Apple to reveal plans for its $100 billion cash hoard – as insiders speculate it could buy rival Samsung or even Twitter

Hoard of cash is bigger than U.S. Treasury’s operating cash balance

Enough to buy many technology companies outright
Could buy Facebook at its expected IPO valuation
Could ‘end world hunger’ for three years by UN estimates
Plans to be revealed 1pm UK time, 9am Eastern Time

Apple is to shed light on a mystery that has puzzled the worlds of technology and business for months – what the world’s richest company intends to do with [...]

Lines for New Apple iPad Down 75%: Report

The lines for the new iPad Friday were more than 75 percent shorter than the crowds that gathered to buy the iPad 2 a year ago, according to a survey by one research firm.

“We counted roughly 550 people on line at 5 locations combined, vs. the 2,300 people we counted in our iPad 2 survey last year,” wrote Daniel Ernst of Hudson Square Research in a report to clients this [...]

BOOM: APPLE Shares Close at All-Time High

By Mark Gongloff

AP

Apple shares finished the day at 411.63, up 2.8%, despite a widespread selloff everywhere else (although the Nasdaq was fairly well-behaved).

That’s a new all-time closing high for Apple stock and just the third close above $400.

Dubious comparison time! Apple is now easily the biggest US company by market cap, at $381.6 billion, compared with Exxon Mobil’s $358.3 billion.

And if market cap were GDP, Apple [...]

WSJ: Apple has ordered key components of a next-generation iPhone to be launched 3rd qtr

By LORRAINE LUK

TAIPEI—Apple Inc. has placed orders for key components used in a next-generation iPhone it is preparing to launch sometime in the third quarter, according to people familiar with the situation.

According to some suppliers of components to Apple, the new version of the iPhone is expected to be thinner and lighter than the iPhone 4 and sport an 8-megapixel camera. One person said the new [...]

APPLE eats MICROSOFT

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)’s Windows sales slumped last quarter as the iPad crimped demand for consumer laptops, marking the first time in 20 years that the software maker reported a smaller quarterly profit than Apple Inc. (AAPL)

Revenue in Microsoft’s Windows division fell 4.4 percent to $4.45 billion, the Redmond, Washington-based company said yesterday in a statement. That missed the $4.6 billion average prediction of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Net income was [...]

Apple vs. Microsoft by the numbers. Data doesn’t lie — or exaggerate

Computerworld – A little less than a year ago, Wall Street reached a Microsoft vs. Apple milestone: for the first time, Apple’s corporate value surpassed Microsoft’s.

And Apple‘s market cap (the total value of all of its shares) topped Microsoft‘s even though the latter company had more revenue and double the profit margins. Clearly, Wall Street was looking at growth potential, not current income statements and balance [...]