{"id":266014,"date":"2020-08-20T22:46:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T02:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=266014"},"modified":"2020-08-20T22:46:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T02:46:18","slug":"apple-becomes-1st-us-company-to-hit-2-t-market-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/20\/apple-becomes-1st-us-company-to-hit-2-t-market-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple becomes 1st US company to hit $2-T market cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_181219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-181219\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1200px-Apple_Store_Carrousel_du_Louvre_18_March_2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-181219 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1200px-Apple_Store_Carrousel_du_Louvre_18_March_2011-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1200px-Apple_Store_Carrousel_du_Louvre_18_March_2011-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1200px-Apple_Store_Carrousel_du_Louvre_18_March_2011-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1200px-Apple_Store_Carrousel_du_Louvre_18_March_2011-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1200px-Apple_Store_Carrousel_du_Louvre_18_March_2011.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-181219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple&#8217;s stock has bounced back strongly following a dip in March caused by the coronavirus pandemic. It now has more than doubled its March low on strong demand even as the global economy remains in tatters. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=19071560\">Photo By Mikhail (Vokabre) Shcherbakov &#8211; Flickr: Paris (\u041f\u0430\u0440\u0438\u0436), CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Apple became the first publicly traded US company to hit a USD2 trillion market capitalization Wednesday after its share price exceeded USD467.97.<\/p>\n<p>The milestone comes two years after the tech company hit USD1 trillion. Apple surpassed Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Aramco on July 31 to become the most valuable publicly-traded company.<\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s stock has bounced back strongly following a dip in March caused by the coronavirus pandemic. It now has more than doubled its March low on strong demand even as the global economy remains in tatters.<\/p>\n<p>Wall Street has been undeterred, however, posting new highs in recent weeks, particularly among big tech companies.<\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s stock price exceeded USD468 in mid-day trading.<em><strong>\u00a0(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2013 Apple became the first publicly traded US company to hit a USD2 trillion market capitalization Wednesday after its share &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":181219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266016,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266014\/revisions\/266016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}