Apple (AAPL 1.36%) hasn't been able to escape the marketwide sell-off, and is down around 20% from its all-time highs. There was considerable concern about how the company would fare because many of its electronics are manufactured in China. Apple has struggled to grow sales recently, and any price increase in its base product would have made that situation even worse.However, Apple got some good news over the weekend: Smartphones and other electronics are exempt from the reciprocal tariffs. That means the ...

New numbers are out for China's smartphone market — and they're a troubling sign for Apple. Overall smartphone shipments in China grew 3.3% in the first quarter, according to a Thursday research report from the International Data Corporation, but iPhone shipments notably fell by 9% year over year.Apple was the only major smartphone maker to lose market share during the quarter, according to IDC. Local rivals dominated the Chinese market, a key region for Apple that CEO Tim Cook has called "the most compet ...

Even before New York AG Tish James launched her insider-trading inquiry into whether Trump cronies got tips to buy stocks before the president’s tariff “pause,” Wall Street veterans flagged fishy tariff-related trades tied to Apple, On The Money has learned.These involved some suspicious buying of beaten-down Apple shares after the markets opened last Friday. The trades in question predated by hours the White House’s surprise tariff exemption on smartphones, an announcement that would bolster the sagging fo ...

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Every once in a while, the stock market breaks out in volatility pockets due to the birth and run of news cycles, as it is an inevitable fact of financial markets as a whole. What is also inevitable and natural is for the phases of these developments to go through a cycle, where new pivots and headlines start to exhaust the whipsaws caused by introducing new information to sway the outlooks being priced into asset prices. This week, the second trading week of April 2025, President Trump swiftly pivoted his ...

据华盛顿邮报报道，苹果公司CEO库克与美国总统特朗普的高级官员就iPhone涨价问题进行了私下会谈。 苹果股价涨1.64%，北京时间01:39暂报197.45美元。 ...

苹果公司CEO库克据悉与美国总统特朗普的高级官员就iPhone涨价问题进行了私下会谈。 ...

Warren Buffett has made no secret about how much he likes Apple (AAPL -3.82%), once referring to it as the best business he knows of. It's routinely the top holding in the portfolio of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A -2.66%) (BRK.B -2.13%), Buffett's conglomerate. But for multiple quarters last year, Berkshire had been trimming its position in the iPhone maker, leading some investors to wonder if the billionaire investor is no longer as optimistic about the tech company.Not only do I think that's not true, here's ...

After 43+ years working for one investment research company or another, I finally retired. So now, I’m completely independent. And for the first time on Seeking Alpha, I won’t be working based on anybody else’s product agenda. I have only one goal now… to give you the best actionable investment insights I can.I have long specialized in rules/factor-based equity investing strategies. But I’m different from others who share such backgrounds. I don’t serve the numbers. Instead, the numbers serve me… to inspire ...

Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon are all locked in a race to see who can zero out their carbon pollution first. Apple reported on Wednesday that it is more than halfway there. Since 2015, the company has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by around 60%, the company said. That covers everything from manufacturing and marketing to corporate operations and customer use. Many companies have successfully eliminated the carbon footprint of their core operations. Cheap solar and wind, and increasingly affordable gr ...