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[Elias]

Cai 2,4% em Frankfurt.

[careca79]

Caríssimos.

Deixo aqui a minha visão actualizada da Apple, que podem ver no blogue Stock Market analysis

Está em inglês, mas deixo aqui o vídeo para vossa consulta.

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[mpfreitas]

Mais uma noticia...de linha Branca.

[Elias]

Wal-Mart Selling Apple's iPhone 5 at Big Discount
Published: Saturday, 15 Dec 2012 | 6:28 AM ET

Wal-Mart Stores said on Friday that it began selling Apple flagship iPhone 5 smartphone at a big discount in thousands of its stores.

Wal-Mart said it is selling the 16 GB Apple iPhone 5 for $127, versus an original price of $189.97. The price is valid with a two-year contract from wireless carriers Verizon , Sprint and AT&T , the retailer added.

Wal-Mart said it is also selling the 16 GB iPhone 4S and the 16 GB iPad with Retina display and WiFi at discounts.

The offers will be available for 30 days in about 3,000 of Wal-Mart's stores, which were not identified. They are not available online, according to the retailer.

Apple has focused on high-priced, premium gadgets for many years and has strictly enforced its prices with retailers and other distributors. However, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman said on Friday that the discounts were arranged with Apple.

"We worked together with them on this," the spokeswoman, Sarah Spencer, said. "They are a great partner."

Wal-Mart is pricing the iPad starting at $399, down from $499. Beginning Dec. 17 the retailer said it will throw in a $30 iTunes card.

Wal-Mart is selling the 16 GB iPhone 4S for $47, versus an original price of $89.97, it said.

Apple did not respond to a request for comment.

Wal-Mart's cooperation with Apple is a contrast to its relationship with Amazon.com, the world's largest Internet retailer.

In September, Wal-Mart said it would stop selling Amazon's Kindle eReaders and tablets, placing a bet that consumers would be more interested in Apple's gadgets. This spring, Target stopped selling Kindle devices.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100317764

[carrancho]

Aqui está um jogo de nervos entre AF e AT. Para uns é sinal vermelho. Para outros está cada vez mais apetitoso...

Eu continuo dentro e desejoso que me paguem p salário de Dezembro para comprar mais a este preço de saldo...

A AAPL está no ponto do:
ou vai ou racha!

Porque é que meteste a fotografia do João Moutinho no gráfico?

[Zecatreca_1001]

Aqui está um jogo de nervos entre AF e AT. Para uns é sinal vermelho. Para outros está cada vez mais apetitoso...

Eu continuo dentro e desejoso que me paguem p salário de Dezembro para comprar mais a este preço de saldo...

A AAPL está no ponto do:
ou vai ou racha!

[paulop2009]

Aqui está um jogo de nervos entre AF e AT. Para uns é sinal vermelho. Para outros está cada vez mais apetitoso...

Eu continuo dentro e desejoso que me paguem p salário de Dezembro para comprar mais a este preço de saldo...

[Elias]

Parece que a Apple vai mesmo fechar em mínimos...

[Celsius-reloaded]

AAPL - g.a.

Vejo um suporte nos 525 (valor que não foi quebrado em fecho durante todo o ano de 2012).

Hoje está nos 519 no pre-market - será que o suporte aguenta?

E não aguentou...

[Elias]

IT GETS WORSE FOR APPLE: UBS Cuts Price Target
Jay Yarow | Dec. 14, 2012, 9:00 AM | 2,413 | 11

Apple's stock is sinking again this morning.
UBS analyst Steve Milunovich is cutting his price target to $700 from $780, and reducing his earnings estimates for the first three calendar quarters of next year. It's still a buy, says Milunovich.
This is the second big bank to cut its Apple price target this week. Jefferies cut its price target to $800, down from $900 on Monday.
Milunovich is reducing his iPhone sales estimate for the March, June and September quarters by 5 million units. He's lowering his EPS estimate by 10%, putting him 5% below consensus.
The reasons he's getting conservative:
Supply chain sources suggest falling iPhone manufacturing for the March quarter.
Chinese sources tell him iPhone 5 sales won't be as strong as the iPhone 4S.
The iPad Mini may be cannibalizing big iPad sales, which means less in revenue.
The previous growth estimates seemed to aggressive in the face of the bad European economy and competition from Samsung.
He also delivers a backhanded compliment to Apple, saying, "Apple maturing but innovative... Apple is driven to make beautiful products ... we have faith that innovation is not dead."
The slight burn is calling it "maturing" and then the second burn is the fact that Apple needs UBS to defend its track record of innovation.
This is to be expected now that Steve Jobs is well-removed from the company. However, it's not like some other company has come along and invented something that Apple should have invented. What are the great innovations that Apple has missed since Steve Jobs died? This notion that Apple is done innovating seems a touch over blown.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ubs-cut- ... z2F2xvOSsK

[J Alves]

E não será que a aple pode fazer aqui um duplo fundo? O vinho do almoço era bom!!! mas eu ao olhar para o volume fico com essa sensação

É uma possibilidade, mas só com um fecho acima dos 590/600 fica essa figura activada.

Sobre a activação estamos em sintonia, mas há um primeiro sinal que é dado nos duplos fundos ou duplos topos, a quebra das lt's

[Elias]

E não será que a aple pode fazer aqui um duplo fundo? O vinho do almoço era bom!!! mas eu ao olhar para o volume fico com essa sensação

É uma possibilidade, mas só com um fecho acima dos 590/600 fica essa figura activada.

[J Alves]

E não será que a aple pode fazer aqui um duplo fundo? O vinho do almoço era bom!!! mas eu ao olhar para o volume fico com essa sensação

[Clinico]

Pode ser que aguente Elias, mas com a death cross, não me atrevo a arriscar...
Abraço
Clinico[/b]

[Elias]

AAPL - g.a.

Vejo um suporte nos 525 (valor que não foi quebrado em fecho durante todo o ano de 2012).

Hoje está nos 519 no pre-market - será que o suporte aguenta?

[atomez]

Mais ainda, dizia que estava á espera da Apple cá em baixo nos 490.

É possível.

Estamos a assistir a um sell out de investidores que querem recolher mais valias antes do fim do ano para aproveitarem o taxa de imposto a 15% que subirá em 1 de Janº para 20% com o "fiscal cliff". Como a AAPL foi das que mais subiu este ano (tal como a GOOG) também agora está a ser das mais penalizadas.

Estou convencido que a tendência se inverterá quando o Obama e os Republicanos chegarem a acordo para evitar o fiscal cliff, o que deve acontecer lá para as 23:55 dia dia 31 de Dezº...

Mesmo que isso não aconteça, a reentrada de compradores no início do anos antes da apresentação de resultados em meados de Fevº deverá levar a boas subidas.

[Clinico]

Gostei de ouvir a análise do Careca.
O ingles é optimo e há uns dias havia um video na Bloomerg de um qualquer investidor que dizia o mesmo que o Careca apresenta.
Mais ainda, dizia que estava á espera da Apple cá em baixo nos 490.

Tambem eu estou á espera dela! Por enaunto estou de fora.
Abraços
Clinico

[Opcard]

Chefe de estratégia da Samsung prefere Apple

O Chief Strategy Officer da Samsung confessou numa entrevista que usa computadores Mac em casa. Não deixa de ser uma afirmação curiosa, numa altura em que as duas empresas lutam em vários tribunais.


Dilpesh Laxmidas

13/12/2012 15:47:35

A confissão de Young Sohn, responsável máximo pela estratégia da Samsung, foi feita numa entrevista ao Technology Review. «De facto, uso um Mac em casa. Sempre usei Mac, um iPhone e um iPad», disse Sohn.

O empresário disse ainda que o hardware da Samsung é bom, mas o seu ecossistema de aplicações não é o melhor.

[careca79]

Boas.

Deixo a minha visão para a Apple ( vídeo está em Inglês )no blogue Stock Market analysis

O que vejo é a apple encaminhar-se a passos largos para os 470 USD's. Podem ver com mais detalhe no blogue em cima.

Deixo a imagem das cotações da acção com o time frame mensal em anexo.

Fica também o vídeo.
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[J Alves]

[sargotrons]

Está iminente a primeira death cross na apple em mais de quatro anos.

Old news!

[atomez]

What’s next for Apple? Did Cook leave us with a clue?

“When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years,” Cook told Williams. “It’s an area of intense interest. I can’t say more than that.”

Isso quer dizer é que estão a preparar um novo e revolucionário produto na área da TV.

Há grande especulação sobre isso e a ser verdade ia dar um impulso enorme na cotação.

[ninja1200]

Que exagero dizer que lhe parece que retrocedeu no tempo 20 ou 30 anos… a não ser que ele ainda use TVs a preto e branco, ou então não quer abrir os olhos para a realidade

A tv continua a ser de um só sentido, porque o que existe em torno das smart TVs não deixa de ser o acesso à internet, porque na sua essência a TV é sempre a mesma e em que não temos qualquer interacção com quem está no outro lado.
Quando o espectador for realmente interveniente, aí sim, haverá uma grande evolução. No entanto não tentem inglobar a internet na TV, porque deixa de ser TV e passa a ser apenas acesso à internet.
A ser criada uma coisa nova, que seja mesmo totalmente diferente e use apenas a internet como meio de transporte de informação.

[Opcard]

http://rockcenter.nbcnews.com/_news/201 ... n-usa?lite

Apple CEO Tim Cook announces plans to manufacture Mac computers in USA

Ronnie Polidoro
Rock Center

Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that one of the existing Mac lines will be manufactured exclusively in the United States next year, making the comments during an exclusive interview with Brian Williams airing tonight at 10pm/9c on NBC’s “Rock Center.” Mac fans will have to wait to see which Mac line it will be because Apple, widely known for its secrecy, left it vague.

ROCK CENTER EXCLUSIVE“We’ve been working for years on doing more and more in the United States,” Cook told Williams.

This announcement comes a week after recent rumors in the blogosphere sparked by iMacs inscribed in the back with “Assembled in USA.”

It was Timothy D. Cook’s first television interview since taking over from his visionary former boss, Steve Jobs, who resigned due to health reasons in August 2011. Jobs died on October 5, 2011, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

The announcement could be good news for a country that has been struggling with an unemployment rate of around 8 percent for some time and has been bleeding good-paying factory jobs to lower-wage nations such as China.

Cook, who joined Apple in 1998, said he believes it’s important to bring more jobs to the United States. Apple would not reveal where exactly the Macs will be manufactured.

“When you back up and look at Apple’s effect on job creation in the United States, we estimate that we’ve created more than 600,000 jobs now,” said Cook. Those jobs, not all Apple hires, vary from research and development jobs in California to retail store hires to third-party app developers. Apple already has data centers in North Carolina, Nevada and Oregon and plans to build a new one in Texas.


Ronnie Polidoro / NBC News
Apple has taken a lot of heat over the past couple of years after a rash of suicides at plants in China run by Foxconn drew attention to working conditions at the world’s largest contract supplier. Apple and other manufacturers who have their gadgets produced by Foxconn were forced to defend production in China. Earlier this year, Apple hired the nonprofit Fair Labor Association to examine working conditions at Foxconn, which makes some of Apple’s most popular products: iPhones, iPods and iPads.

Given that, why doesn’t Apple leave China entirely and manufacture everything in the U.S.? “It’s not so much about price, it’s about the skills,” Cook told Williams.

WATCH VIDEO: Apple CEO announces 'Made in America' plans

Echoing a theme stated by many other companies, Cook said he believes the U.S. education system is failing to produce enough people with the skills needed for modern manufacturing processes. He added, however, that he hopes the new Mac project will help spur others to bring manufacturing back to the U.S.


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“The consumer electronics world was really never here,” Cook said. “It’s a matter of starting it here.”

Cook said he still misses Jobs, his friend and mentor, but that Jobs’ advice to him before he died was to do the things he thinks are right and not try to guess “what Steve would do.”

“I loved Steve dearly, and miss him dearly,” Cook told Williams. “And one of the things he did for me, that removed a gigantic burden that would have normally existed, is he told me, on a couple of occasions before he passed away, to never question what he would have done. Never ask the question, ‘What Steve would do,’ to just do what’s right.”

Apple today is worth about 43 percent more than when Cook took over. Under his leadership, Apple has released three new iMac models, two iPhones, two iPads, and the iPad mini.

That’s not to say there haven’t been some speed bumps. Most notable was the release of “Apple Maps,” which replaced the Google Maps app on the iPhone and was widely panned for misleading directions. Cook admits they screwed up.

“On Maps, a few years ago, we decided that we wanted to provide customers features that we didn’t have in the current edition of Maps,” Cook said, “It [Maps] didn’t meet our customers’ expectation, and our expectations of ourselves are even higher than our customers’. However, I can tell you, so we screwed up.”

The Maps debacle led to the defenestration of some company executives, including reportedly Richard Williamson, who oversaw the mapping team.

“We screwed up and we are putting the weight of the company behind correcting it,” Cook told Williams.

Customers still snapped up the iPhone 5, however. According to Apple, five million of them were sold in their first weekend after the device’s launch in September.

Speed bump No. 2 was the redesigned connector for the iPhone 5, which was widely criticized by many because it didn’t fit many of the accessories Apple fans had already purchased for their earlier iPhone versions. It forced them to purchase an adapter, which some criticized as an inelegant solution. Others argue, however, that the new connector was worth it because it allowed Apple to make a smaller device.


NBC News
“It was one of those things where we couldn’t make this product with that connector,” Cook said, “But let me tell you, the product is so worth it.”

What’s next for Apple? Did Cook leave us with a clue?

“When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years,” Cook told Williams. “It’s an area of intense interest. I can’t say more than that.”

Editor’s Note: Brian Williams full interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook airs tonight, Dec. 6 at 10pm/9c on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams.

[Elias]

Cramer on Apple's 'Death Cross'

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?play=1&video=3000133794