In Brief Apple and Meta are warring in Europe over the balance between interoperability and privacy, Reuters reports.The fight focuses on the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), a competition regulation that requires designated gatekeepers (including Apple and Meta) not to restrict rivals’ access to so-called core platform services. In Apple’s case, this means: iOS, iPadOS, App Store, and Safari. But its concern here seems mainly focused on iOS. The iPhone maker has made no bones about its distaste ...

Israel Englander is the CEO of Millennium Management, the second most profitable hedge fund in history as measured by net gains since inception, according to LCH Investment. In total, Millennium owns more than 6,000 stocks, index funds, and options, but Englander downsized one of his largest positions in the third quarter.Specifically, he sold 11.5 million shares of Apple (AAPL -2.14%), reducing his stake by 90%. Apple had been one of his hedge fund's top 10 holdings, but it no longer ranks in top 75. Meanw ...

What do Apple (AAPL -2.14%) and Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX -4.63%) have in common? At first glance, not much. The former is a consumer tech leader while the latter operates in the biotech industry.One thing they do share, though, is that they've made their long-term shareholders happy. Apple and Vertex Pharmaceuticals have outperformed the market over the past decade, and even longer. Further, there are good reasons to believe they can continue delivering outsized returns for the next 10 years and beyond. ...

American stock exchanges currently host eight American technology companies with valuations of $1 trillion or more, but only three have graduated into the $3 trillion club so far:Apple: $3.7 trillionNvidia: $3.3 trillionMicrosoft: $3.3 trillionAmazon (AMZN -4.60%) is the world's fourth-largest company, at this writing, with a market capitalization of $2.4 trillion. Its stock has soared by more than 50% this year and trades at an all-time high. The company's strong cloud growth, soaring profits, and leadersh ...

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Apple has reportedly stopped its development of an iPhone hardware subscription program.The company had planned to launch the program in 2022, delayed it until 2023, and has now scrapped it, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Dec. 18), citing unnamed sources.Apple did not immediately reply to PYMNTS’ request for comment.The company had planned to launch a service in which consumers would pay a monthly fee for an iPhone and get a new model of the device each year, according to the report.During development, the p ...

Shares of Apple are so expensive, Treasuries may be a better buy.Apple (AAPL -0.17%) has been one of the most iconic companies this century, but it is no longer growing, and new products have fallen flat. In this video, Travis Hoium shows why Treasuries may be a better buy than Apple stock today.*Stock prices used were end-of-day prices of Dec. 16, 2024. The video was published on Dec. 17, 2024. ...

Despite the undeniable strength of the 2024 stock market – with many individual stocks reaching new all-time highs (ATH), and the benchmark S&P 500 index itself at unprecedented peaks above 6,000 – few expected this year to feature the world’s first $4 trillion company.Seemingly against all odds, Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) recent rally has opened up the possibility that this could happen before the New Year as the technology behemoth boasts a market capitalization of $3.831 trillion at press time on December 18 ...

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As of the close of trading on Dec. 13, nine companies boasted market capitalizations of more than $1 trillion. In order of largest to smallest, those companies are:Apple: $3.7 trillionNvidia: $3.3 trillionMicrosoft: $3.3 trillionAmazon: $2.4 trillionAlphabet: $2.4 trillionMeta Platforms: $1.6 trillionTesla: $1.4 trillionBroadcom: $1.1 trillionTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing: $1 trillionThe common thread stitching each of these companies together is artificial intelligence (AI). In areas including softwar ...