_ _ _ _ ...._ '-)-' |_\_/ | .' '. '-)-' / \/ \-'` _| 6 6 ` | /..\ | \__/_, | / '--.___ \ \ \ / / /`----` -. > / / / / / / I-------------------/_/__/------/__/__/-------------------I I I I Company Traded perception of net worth I I I I ======== Feb 16 Mar 16 Apr 16 I I ====== ====== ====== I I I I Apple Inc. = $335B $304B $302B I I I I Wallmart Stores = $194B $182B $187B I I I I Microsoft + Dell + Lenovo = $310B $241B $247B I I I I Nokia, largest cellphone maker, from Finland? Nah. I I I I Actual GDP of Country of Finland = $238B I I I ---------------------------------------------------------
(US dollars at current prices)
Get the picture? Somethings not adding up. A new "mobile revolution?"
Perhaps, but it is still a bubble. I love bubbles. The only thing I like more than buying into them at the bottom, is shorting them at the top.
Welcome to the top, folks. Apple closed on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 (day 0 of this thread), at $363.13
BREAKING: Apple waging all-out patent war on anything Android. The dislike and disdain of Steve Jobs even towards Samsung, a key supplier, has been palpable at recent Apple events. Samsung, which has a deep intellectual property portfolio of its own, seems to have been well prepared for Apple's recent "look and feel" lawsuits, responding "swift and strong".
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