I just remembered that Apple is traded in the Japanese
stock exchange. John Sculley went over for the ceremonies
when Apple started trading there many cherry blossoms ago.
So, I went to
quote.yahoo.co.jp
I don't have Kanji fonts on this machine, but the layout looks
very much like the one at quote.yahoo.com. Even if I had Kanji
fonts I could probably only make out the numbers.
Anyway, I went to what corresponds to "Symbol lookup" in the
U.S. version of Yahoo! and lo and behold, it gave a lot of
gibberish, but also a hyperlink to "6689". Many Asian stock
exchanges use numbers as symbols.
So, I went back to the homepage of quote.yahoo.co.jp and entered
6689 and tried to select what looks like "detail quotes".
Yahoo! [sic] I got what looked like the quote you get from
quote.yahoo.com, with the tiny graph on the right hand side.
The graph is exactly like the AAPL graph.
I have no idea what a unit of AAPL trades at over in Japan,
but, it says
3650 +250 (+7.35%) among the gibberish.
So, there you have it, at 7:15 PM Pacific time, Apple is trading
up 7% in the Japanese market. (I think... :-)
Don't try this at home, kids...
Cheers,
Kok Chen |
