“The way to get really rich in US stocks in 2005 was to spot the next fad. Those who foresaw the incredible popularity of the iPod might have invested in Apple Computer, which gained 128.5 per cent. On its own Apple accounted for a rise of 3.7 points in the S&P 500 index – more than any other stock,” John Authers reports for The Financial Times. “Google, the dominant internet search engine, gained 120 per cent.”
“Energy was by far the best performing sector within the S&P, gaining 29.6 percent,” Authers reports. “Valero Energy equalled Apple’s rise of 128.5 per cent to share honours as the S&P’s strongest stock, accounting for 1.61 points of the index’s improvement, while Exxon Mobil, the largest company by market capitalisation, on its own accounted for 3.4 points of the S&P’s rise, second only to Apple.”
Full article here.
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Way to go Apple
Cheers from England !!!!
What’s an iPod? I think I saw an ad for whatever-it-is last week.
“Exxon Mobil . . . second only to Apple.”
Mwaaaa-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaaahhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is SOOOOOOOO funny to read!
Go Apple.
A fad? Um, no a fad is a short lived trend that burns hot and fast. We are now 4 years into the iPod craze. Hardly a fad.
4 years. Where are the iPod killers?
Yah, it’s funny when you think about it. With all the opportunities Big Oil had last year to rake in the mullah and all their record profits, they STILL couldn’t beat Apple — this little, formerly “beleaguered” technology company that “makes those silly little iPod thingies.”
As others have said, the ENTIRE technology sector should be lined up on their knees waiting to give Jobs a BJ the likes of which have never been seen (felt?) for almost single-handedly giving every one of them a great economic boost. The spin-off benefits of Apple’s success are probably incalculable.
And what’s MS stock done for anyone lately? Yah, thought so. Gates should be first up in that knee line. Then Ballmer. Then Gorog. Then maybe Fiorina. And on and on and on . . .
That’s 2 years in a row that AAPL is the #1 performing stock in the S&P…not frickin’ bad.
Go apple,go apple
Yes, Coink-adink is correct, although there’s madness in his method.
The entire tech industry certainly owes Apple a debt of gratitude… (which now includes PDAs and MP3 players).
Who knows what else Apple will invent and create markets for.
So when do we see Hillary spouting about Senate Hearings into the obsene Apple profits. Maybe in 2006 we will see her promoting a “Think Different” tax on those that profit “too much” from their insanely popular good ideas.
I put some of my tax refund into some Apple Stock back (pre-split) when it was trading in the low teens. If I would have been more aggressive and put more in, I could retire right now. It’s been a great run & isn’t over yet.
Spark-
Give it a break. Your Day-Dreaming about Clinton doing something in the future.
What you should be worried about is George Bush tapping innocent American citizens phones illegally – admitting it and getting away with it.
Step into reality dude.
MW: College – get some.
Hillary’s a sphincter harpie. And Bill’s a phony pseudo-intellectual.
Oh yah, by the way — George and Laura are happily married.
Go Apple! Go tax cuts!!
There was no illegal wiretapping. This was intelligence gathering that focused on communications between Al Qaeda agents ABROAD and their local contacts in the US. It is designed to PREVENT attacks and save lives–which it has already accomplished, repeatedly. Not only is that well within the President’s Constitutional powers, but it is absolutely necessary–relying on the FISA court for day-to-day intelligence gathering, which typically requires immediate decision-making and a broad net, would be insane and completely impractical. Besides, this program was extensively supervised, by both the Justice Department and bipartisan Congressional intelligence committees. At some point the Dems, as well as their amen corner in the MSM, will realize that the American public isn’t interested in losing the war against Islam-fascism and taking unnecessary American civilian casualties. Until they do, the Dems will continue to boost Bush’s poll numbers with their inane antics.
Oh, and Happy New (Bush) Year!
Kate
BTW, my earlier post intended to reference “Islamo-fascism” the Al Qaeda-type perversion of Isam.
DemoLition—phony pseudo-intellectual? Speak for yourself. Unless you also were a Rhodes Scholar and went to Osford to boot. At what point do things stop being Clinton’s fault and start being Dubya’s fault. I thought the buck stopped at the Oval Office, but I guess not anymore. Since the real president doesn’t have his desk there.
That’s 2 years in a row that AAPL is the #1 performing stock in the S&P…not frickin’ bad.
After 2006, you’ll be able to say, “That’s 3 years in a row that AAPL is the #1 performing stock in the S&P….
4 years. Where are the iPod killers?
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Engadget’s just working on that scratch-proof surface.. the Engadget/Slashdot groupies will go nuts
“There was no illegal wiretapping. This was intelligence gathering that focused on communications between Al Qaeda agents ABROAD and their local contacts in the US.”
If everything were on the up-and-up then why didn’t he just go ahead and
get a warrant?
I’ll tell you why…..because he couldn’t make a case for probable cause.
That’s why.
There’s a reason why the constitution was setup to ensure a balance of
power between the three branches of government. In order to prevent
abuse of power.
— signed ‘Disgruntled Republican’
You got it macaholic. Yep. You’re right. I’m wrong. Nope. I didn’t go to “Osford”, so I must not know what I’m talking about. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Dipshit.
As for Bush, yaah, what you’re trying to imply is correct — on Twisted World!. Let’s see: a B.A. from Yale and an M.B.A. from Harvard. Yaah, pretty lame . . . NOT!!! You sure you’re not an “AL-coholic” (glug, glug)?
Soooooooo, whadaya wanna blame on “Dubya” now, assclown? Let’s see . . .
• No WMD’s? Probably were scurried into Syria and other environs as both defectors AND satellite imagery indicate, but if it’s faulty military intelligence you’re talking about — why not blame the dismantling of our intelligence gathering apparatus over Clinton’s two terms on that? Spooks left the biz in massive numbers because they couldn’t do their jobs. Not gonna blame ol’ blow job Bill, though, eh? Huh? Just a little bit? No? Too uncomfortable to own up to any responsibility . . . for anything? Yah, that sounds a lot like Clinton.
• Economy? Let’s see, despite the Dem’s best efforts to paint it as in the “toilet”, it just keeps humming along with near record low unemployment rates and still-low interest rates. But, I can just BET that you’re not going to acknowledge that the bubble actually BURST on Clinton’s watch? Huh? Remember? Early 2000? No, huh? Too painful to recall? Yah, that’s a typical Dem: Do nothing in the White House except get hummers from portly interns and blow up aspirin factories and . . . oh yaah, almost forgot . . . GET FRICKIN’ IMPEACHED!!!! . . . while being fortunate enough to ride an emerging internet business paradigm through a huge run-up to its first implosion and then . . . BLAME THE NEXT GUY!!!!!!!!!! Classic.
• National security? Ohhhh, man — you don’t even wanna GO there!!! Let’s recall:
Clinton = Treat every attack on the United States (Khobar Towers, African embassies, U.S.S. Cole, World Trade Center bombing) as a “police” matter whilst simultaneously kissing the ass of the supremely corrupt U.N., all leading directly to the 2001 attacks on the WTC.
Bush = Re-landscape Afghanistan and pulverize Taliban shitskins while removing a scumbag butcher and his living filth sons from power in Iraq for accumulating WMD’s that were verified and agreed to by Republicans AND Democrats as well as firing on our aircraft in the no-fly zones EVERY SINGLE DAY while flipping the bird to multiple U.N. resolutions which called for the use of FORCE. All while telling our “allies” in Germany and France to shove their illegal oil-for-food money up their F$@*KING ASSES. Yaah, I know which choice makes me sleep better at night.
Man, I must be butter ’cause I’m on a roll! I could go on (and on and on and on . . . there are sooooo many examples of Clinton putrification . . . and Kerry ineptitude . . . and Gore flaccidity), but I tire of trying to shine the light through the lead-lined blinders covering your eyes.
Get a clue and stop judging a person because he doesn’t speak well in public and is actually happily married to his wife.
Look inward, tool.
“mission accomplished”
yet the bodies keep coming home
Spot on Macaholic! What juice is DemoLition drinking. Pretty good RDF stuff!
Not certain which planet he’s on either, when I think of all that middle class money going to his wealthy pals……
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is King, and Bush sure has pulled the wool over a lot of eyes!
BTW congrats to Jonathan Ive with his little gong in our New Years Honours list. A Knighthood next?
World as in MDN word and the only one we have, O Kyoto ignoring US (another Dubbya tactic BTW)
and that alan sugar dolt called the ipod a fad
haha
now where’s he ?
pleb
Let’s see.
Ronald Reagan funds militant Islamic fundamentalism spending an estimated $6 billion in aid to the mujahedeen (holy warriors) between 1980 and 1992. American and Saudi money enabled the Afghan and Pakistani radical puritans to build a movement and wield clout among Afghan warriors.
President Bush (the first) quit Afghanistan and passively watched as it “spun into anarchy [and became] the home of a new and little understood threat; the grieved Arab extremists.”
Fast forward:
The World Trade Buildings are destroyed by airlines flown NOT by Iraqi hijackers but mostly men of Saudi decent. Bush assists the Ben Laden family out of the United State before anyone can ask a question. In order to “protect” them.
During the presidential election Ben Laden release a timely speech just before the election to scare the voting pubic towards voting for Bush.
Just how connected to Ben Laden is Bush?
• 1 hour of the war in Iraq cost $46 million dollars – your TAX dollars.
It’s time to wake up.
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Oh Yeah. Go Apple!
That reminds me of a funny joke. What do you get when you put Republicans and Democrats in the same room? Answer at the end of the post.
Now to topic at hand. Lovely stuff and all but it seems to me that over the long term, Apple and Steve Jobs et al. will strike deeper into the historical heart of what early computers were all about.
Lets hope the next generation echoes the sentiments of humanity. We owe a lot to these tools and those behind them.
Answer: Stereophonic whine.
Hey “alcoholic” and “RePUBiCon” (great spelling, dipshit — and what the hell is the “voting pubic”?):
Pull your heads out of yer asses and start thinking long-term for a change. In 50 years people will remember our moves in Iraq as the dawning of a new age of democracy and enlightenment in that part of the dark world. The most important decisions are usually reviled in their own time, that’s why a true leader actually LEADS — not gets blowjobs.
“Middle class money going to wealthy pals”! WTF?!?!?!? More Dem spin. Check the numbers, turd. I’m middle class and I’m absolutely LOVING my lower taxes — and spending more as a result. WHich HELPS the frickin’ economy, you tax-and-spend liberal.
Close-minded Bush-haters all. I dare you — DARE you — to apply the scrutiny and vitriolic flamethrowing to the record of your Democratic “heroes”.
Hypocrites.