“Nasdaq reopened for full trading at 3:25 p.m [EDT] after halting trading for more than 3 hours, with the major averages all posting gains,” Justin Menza reports for CNBC. “A technical problem led to a halt of all Nasdaq trading shortly after midday.”
“Billionaire investor Carl Icahn tweeted on Thursday that he plans to meet with Apple’s Tim Cook in September to discuss details of a possible stock buyback,” Menza reports. “What will be discussed is the magnitude of the shares repurchased, Icahn said.”
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Before the doomsayers start getting hysterical now:
Tim Cook will do what he sees right for Apple
Tim finally starting to care about the investor. Good news!!
Go away and buy some more DELL Stocks.
Carl Icahn = Gordon Gecko writ large. I’m all for full throated capitalist values but not at the expense of hollowing out a company by employing greenmail tactics.
Icahn is an egotistical slug. Investing in AAPL because of him is shaky at best. I’d be very careful here with my money. AAPL is always dangerous before earnings and product launches. This time should be no exception. Carl just exacerbates that danger factor. You have to wonder if this is something Carl is announcing on his own or has Tim Cook/Apple agreed to such a meeting? The last thing Apple needs before product launches is a distraction. Taking attention away from known and unknown products doesn’t help marketing. My guess is that the brain trust at Apple is working overtime trying to devise a plan to defuse Carl Icahn and his ego.
Tis only dangerous to those who buy and sell short term. Mine came in (mostly) at $20, two splits ago. I worry not about Icahn. Though I completely agree that he is egotistical, stock-mainpulating slug and a boil on the southern end of a northbound jackass. 🙂
Calling him a boil is very kind sir. I’d say that he wouldn’t make a pimple on a decent human beings ass but then I would be unkind. Actually I’m okay with that.
Lower. The pus that infects the mucous… that cruds up the fungus… that feeds on the pond scum. — Michael O’Neill
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Icahn is not iCare about Apple creating the best products possible for customer to really love, enjoying looking an using it. When Apple forgets that and starts caring about making INVESTORS/WS/STOCK/BEAN COUNTERS happy, its time for Jobs to come back and give whoever is in charge of Apple in the future re-occuring SJ on your ass nightmares as a reminder on what Apple is all about!
Yeah! And frog wood stew has marble leverage summer licorice, dammit!
Stock manipulation in public. Insane if this is going unnoticed by the SEC.
Stock manipulation n: illicit behavior that creates or attempts to give the appearance of active trading in a security (as to induce others to buy or sell).
Clearly iCan is keeping this in the news for personal gain.
Why the h*ll is Cook wasting his time on this guy?
I hope Tim slaps him in his face and send him home.