Greg Lippert on Premarket: Apple is green - 'Insiders are making a killing. Unbridled corruption.'
on Premarket: Apple is green - 'Actually, we accomplished a lot in Iran. Their navy (except for speedboats) is sunk. Their missile forces are down somewhere between 50%-80%. Their military industrial capacity is severely degraded, again possibly 50%-75% (although I haven’t seen a lot of analysis of that, it’s hard to do that via open-source.) Their political and particularly military leadership has been mostly eliminated, and until today the remainder are in hiding. Their domestic security apparatus has taken a lot of hits (leadership, facilities.) All these are -military accomplishments-. But the political accomplishments, the ‘war objectives’ are less clear. Iran has not been actually -blocked- from re-establishing a nuclear or long range missile program. Iran’s ability to support its proxy forces is substantially degraded (and Israel has not “declared peace” against Hezbollah), but not eliminated. And most significantly, Iran still controls the Straits of Hormuz. What happens next is, of course, not clear at all. Negotiations between US & Iran will be very difficult. China (apparently pressured Iran over the Straights) is a major player in the resulting armistice/peace. Russia benefited financially from the war’s impact on oil prices, but if those come down, Russia will have opposite goals from China. The previous NATO alliance is broken, it’s not clear what comes next. But the one thing I will predict: There’ll be a new arms race as everyone rebuilds stocks of interceptors, and develop drones & counter-drones.'
on Premarket: Apple is green - 'The stock pump is in full swing, giving cronies wild advantages that the rest of us don’t have. What a sham. It’s all a massive money grab.'
on Premarket: Apple is green - 'With less than 15 minutes until the opening bell Apple is trading up $5.60 at $259.10. This is $3.18 ahead of Friday’s closing price. Index futures are forecasting a very bullish open with Nasdaq Composite and Russell 2000 futures up 3.55%. VIX is at 20.25, down 21.47%. I’m looking forward to seeing this morning’s numbers!'
on Apple joins Project Glasswing's bug hunt - '@PED it may not have been a good idea, but like all things, if it was possible, someone was going to do it. I suspect “bad actors” were already using AI. So another necessary evil. AI proliferation is the new nuclear proliferation of the 1950’s. “Duck and Cover” with no place to hide.'
on Premarket: Apple is green - 'Something strange going on with AAPL. At 7.38 AM Eastern Nasdaq quotes for AAPL has flashed well over a dozen times in quick succession between $253.50 and $259.25. There were no intermediary trades. Just $253.50 and $259.25. Trade size while this was happening ran from ~950 shares to about 1,230 shares.'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Just to let people know Trump has postponed bombing Iran’s bridges and power plants for two weeks tonight so Apple shares are up in the aftermarket as if today didn’t happen.'
on Foldable iPhone rumor takes a bite out of Apple - 'Seems like over the years Nikkei consistently has negative stories about Apple.'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'I’ll take a close of -$5.80, well off the low of the day of almost -$13.00. Considering this drop was all based on rumors, an AI patent issue in China, only one market, and general pessimism in the market because of the Iran war, this small drop will pass.'
on Foldable iPhone rumor takes a bite out of Apple - 'Who to believe? We’re in the blackout period pre earnings. We always get scary stories during this time.'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Something else weighing down the price? NYT: “Whoop, a Wearable Health Device Maker, Raises $575 Million” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/business/dealbook/whoop-raises-575-million-10-billion-valuation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZFA.oZQ_.-aa1B318KKVx&smid=url-share'
on Foldable iPhone rumor takes a bite out of Apple - 'Rumor 1-Foldable iPhone exists Rumor 2-Foldable iPhone to be introduced this fall, but with no release date Rumor 3-Foldable iPhone, with no release date will be delayed Rumored to be Rumors Apple to charge more for foldable iPhone than the rumors predicted Add your next rumored rumor about the foldable iPhone here I guess that is why they call it a rumor mill'
on Foldable iPhone rumor takes a bite out of Apple - 'From a note to Evercore clients that landed on my desktop Tuesday: “The Annual Nikkei iPhone Production Story – Foldable Phone Delays, We Think Unlikely” From our perspective, a delay to the new foldable model would be surprising given our recent conversations… We would also note that today’s Nikkei article is consistent with its annual cadence of publishing iPhone production reports, which have historically not always proven accurate. — Analyst Amit Daryanani'
