AAPL Price-Hike Selloff Crashes Apple No. 2 Cap Odds to 32%
Apple's No. 2 market-cap odds fell 41pp to 32% as of 21:05 UTC Thursday as AAPL shed 5.2% on Mac and iPad price hikes driven by an AI memory shortage.
Apple's chances of holding the No. 2 global market-cap rank at June 30 settlement sit at 32% as of 21:05 UTC Thursday — down 41 percentage points in 24 hours — as the same hardware price-hike announcement that drove the companion Alphabet No. 2 cap contract sharply higher sent AAPL shares skidding and overturned the session's prior conviction.
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