“Industry concerns about Steve Jobs’ health have not gone away more than a month after the Apple CEO appeared dramatically thinner at the firm’s annual developers’ conference, fighting what insiders at the time were calling a ‘bug,'” Brian Garrity and Peter Lauria report for The New York Post.
“Apple is due to report earnings today, but many investors and analysts remain as interested in news of the condition of the tech titan – who is a survivor of pancreatic cancer – as they are in the numbers themselves.
‘Apple’s hedge fund investors are very worried,’ said a Wall Street source who has spoken with some of the company’s stakeholders,” Garrity and Lauria report.
MacDailyNews Take: We imagine there was more from the same “Wall Street source.” Such as, “Also, I have a vested interest in seeing Apple’s stock price move down at this time.”
Garrity and Lauria continue, “After the conference in June, Apple reps blamed Jobs’ weight loss on an unspecified illness that required treatment with antibiotics. Since then, there’s been no update on his health, and company officials now are not commenting on it despite repeated requests. Multiple sources who have met with – and in some cases even dined with – Jobs in the weeks surrounding the introduction of the iPhone 3G on July 11, said they came away troubled by his thin appearance.”
Garrity and Lauria report, “One investor polled by The Post acknowledged to recently selling down his stake by ‘a few million shares’ as a hedge in case any more bad news comes out about Jobs’ health.”
MacDailyNews Take: Are you getting the message, yet?! Garrity and Lauria certainly know their audience. They need to hit their “readership” with it over the head repeatedly in the vain hope that something sticks. In other words: If you’re reading The New York Post “Business” section for actual “business” news, stay as far away from investing in individual stocks as possible.
Garrity and Lauria report, “Part of the reason for the concern over Jobs’ health – aside from genuine sympathy – is that Apple has no succession plan in place.”
MacDailyNews Take: Half truth. Make that “Apple has no publicly-announced succession plan in place,” and you have the whole truth.
The full hit piece, timed perfectly to today’s earnings announcement, Think Before You Click™, here.
MacDailyNews Take: You-know-who would be proud, if he’s not the Post’s “Wall Street source” himself.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “JES42” for the heads up.]
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go boys I need a new plane!!
the finest bench blanket in NYC.
MacDailyNews Take: You-know-who would be proud, if he’s not the Post’s “Wall Street source” himself.
Karl Rove?
Islandgirl,
Jim Cramer.
I TOLD YOU! I TOLD YOU!! Steve Jobs is DYING and our only hope is to panic!
EVERYONE BURRY YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND!! SELL THE COMPANY TO DELL AND RETURN THE $$$ TO SHAREHOLDERS WHILE THERE’S S-T-I-L-L T-I-M-E!!!
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I can’t believe idiots would sell off shares based on a story from the New York Post!
“naked short selling AAPL still legal”
The other half of the truth:
“The SEC states that “Naked short selling is not necessarily a violation of the federal securities laws or the Commission’s rules,” and clarifies that in some circumstances, it can contribute to market liquidity. However, naked shorting to drive down share prices violates US law.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_short_selling)
“D. Are short sales legal?
Although the vast majority of short sales are legal, abusive short sale practices are illegal. For example, it is prohibited for any person to engage in a series of transactions in order to create actual or apparent active trading in a security or to depress the price of a security for the purpose of inducing the purchase or sale of the security by others. Thus, short sales effected to manipulate the price of a stock are prohibited.”
(http://www.sec.gov/spotlight/keyregshoissues.htm)
I was in a meeting at Apple just a few weeks ago, Steve came in conference room and said Hello to us. He looked fine, he was full of energy and in a great mood. Steve has always been thin so, I’m not sure what all the concern is over. I’d bet on Steve out living Monkey Boy by many many years.
Is anybody here old enough to remember the days when the New York Post was a real newspaper? It’s true, it was. But that was before it became the NY version of Weekly World News. You believe anything in there and you’ll soon be wrapping your head in aluminum foil.
@ ron,
I might not know where to put the post, but after this weekend, I learned how to make a pencil disappear!
(I’m almost afraid to push “Submit”)
Brilliant. Tabloid journalism has come to the business world. What’s the betting we’ll be seeing upskirt shots of female executives within a year?
@Moo the pencil pusher
I’d wouldn’t be Posting about all your past submissions if I were you.
“Is anybody here old enough to remember the days when the New York Post was a real newspaper?”
It was NEVER a real newspaper.
The New York Post was founded as a propaganda rag by the traitor, Alexander Hamilton. Its original purpose was to slander Thomas Jefferson and the other patriots who stood against the unconstitutional expansion of federal power that Hamilton schemed and lied to achieve.
Since its founding, the NYP has ALWAYS worked against the people of the United States. To hell with them.
I was having dinner with Steve last month. He looked weak and tired, he was confused and grumpy. Steve has always been losing weight since his diagnosis of cancer. My oncologist colleague suggested that Job’s prognosis was probably not positive. I’d hope that Steve will survive 2008.
Fer reals.
I lost one hundred pounds, nobody tells me I am too thin or sickly.
MW = straight, as in “you got that straight!” (str8)
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@Broker
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Next time I’ll attach that label.
FUDpucker Sorxy,
Depends, were you a morbidly obese mound of shaking and shimmying fat tissue or were you a person with a BMI of 20?
It’s all a numbers game, folks. Why anybody puts any weight on the stock market nowadays is beyond me.
Thank you for your insensitive pack of lies. You’ve been hanging around here of late baiting us into a phlegm war. There’s just one small problem: you won’t succeed. A suggestion: if you are going to try to be a troll, please try to apply some deeper thought and originality. At least make it interesting. Otherwise, picking on you would be no fun.
Behind my house is a stand of woods. I see all kinds of wildlife, from deer to coyotes, to mountain lions, hawks, owls and other animals. I’ve been fascinated by what happened to a hawk when it tried to disrupt the woods. At first, it terrorized smaller animals. Then before long, the crows appeared. The hawk might have been vicious, but the large number of crows eventually forced it off, and the hawk flew away.
The same thing will eventually happen to you.
Have a nice day.
Someone a little cranky today?
You name dropper, you.
Eat crow, fanboi.
Steve Jobs should personally tell the analists today at the earnings report the state of his health and end this crap reporting once and for all!
The more you fanbois “ignore” me with your numerous pathetic posts, the more I realize what an incredibly stupid and delusional lot you are.
Who better to demonstrate the nonsense and idiocy of fanbois that fanbois themselves.
Thank you!