
Stocks down to $177.85/share as of 6/18 @ 10:40am, time to pump it up!
Apple stocks are down thanks to an article that was posted on CNN's front page news a couple of days ago. the activle was from another news group (not CNN) that questioned why Steve Jobbs looks so skinny and even more so at the WWDC keynote. they were questioning whether Steve's pancreatic cancer had returned, what the whipple surgery he had a few years ago did to his body, and whether or not he could still run Apple at the level he had been.
Then they allowed people to post comments. 90% told the news group to leave Steve alone and get out of his private life. Another 5% called for Steve to immediately name his replacement, the remaining 5% said that Apple has no chance and should consider folding if Steve is out of the picture.
One blogger even posted that they had the same cancer and they continue to lead a near-normal life 15 years later and still going strong.
CNN reported that after that article came out, stocks slipped on the note that Apple could be in trouble and Steve possibling leaving and his cancer returning.
Edit:
Here is the paragraph:
Why does Steve Jobs look so thin?
Much of the speculation about Steve Jobs’ rail-thin appearance at the unveiling of the new iPhone on June 9 has tended to be all or nothing.
Either his cancer has returned or he is recovering from a bout with a “common bug,” as his spokeswoman told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. “That’s all there is to it,” she said. (The talk may have unnerved investors a bit: Apple (AAPL) shares fell 4.1% on Thursday and another 2.4% by midday Friday.)
Here is the link to the article:
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/06/13/steve-jobs-life-after-the-whipple/
the blog stream afterwards is endless. Some people are just jerks for waht they wrote.....
Edit again - looks like some of the comments were removed and only the first page still exists. which gives a kind of broad overview of what people are thinking. One jerk even wrote the possibility of AIDS.