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🗞️ 📰 🚨   $AAPL TO LAUNCH NEW AI FEATURES IN iOS 18.2 BY DECEMBER

Apple’s upcoming iOS 18.2 update, reportedly set for early December, will bring enhanced Apple Intelligence features like ChatGPT integration, the Image Playground app, and new customizable emojis called Genmoji.

Reports suggest that Apple may eventually add Google’s Gemini AI, but OpenAI’s technology is expected to have an exclusivity window. Expansion into China isn’t anticipated until iOS 19 at the earliest. 

🍏📉🍏 Apple’s Got a Core Problem: Can It Keep It Together? 🍏📉🍏

Kia ora Tiger traders! 

Apple (AAPL) is stepping into the week with its price slightly bruised at $221.73 in pre-market, down 0.53% – a bit like dropping your iPhone but hoping the screen hasn’t cracked! Let’s peel back the layers and see what’s brewing in the orchard 🍏🍎.

📊 Core Stats and Technicals:

• Pre-Market Price: $221.73 (🔻0.53%) – that’s a “squeeze” for a trillion-dollar giant!

• Yesterday’s Close: $222.91, with a cheeky dip of 1.33%.

• Support Line: Around $220 – where we’ll see if AAPL’s got the juice to hold up.

• Resistance Zone: Watch out for $225 - $230; like a locked iPhone, it might be tricky to crack!

• Bid/Ask Levels:

• Bid: $221.65

• Ask: $221.84

📈 Juicy Moving Averages:

• MA5: 222.17

• MA10: 221.77

• MA30: 221.55

These averages are squeezing tighter than a budget flight’s legroom – something’s about to give! Apple is teetering on that $220 mark, and if it slips, it could fall deeper into the orchard’s shady undergrowth. 🌳

🔍 Valuation at a Glance:

• Forward PE: 30.03 – a tad “premium” 🍏

• EPS (Forward): 7.423 – plenty of seed potential here!

• ROA & ROE: 21.46% and a whopping 157.41%, proving Apple’s efficiency isn’t just a pipe dream.

• Dividend Yield: 0.44% – a small bite for investors, but hey, every crunch counts!

🔥 Analysts’ Apple Verdict:

🟢 Buy: 20 🍏

🟡 Hold: 5 🍏

🔴 Sell: 2 🍏

A bit of a mixed fruit bowl here – while some analysts see Apple as ripe for the picking, others are wary of a worm or two in the short term. As one top analyst quipped, “Apple’s brand is still gold-plated, but its valuation’s giving some analysts the jitters!”

📉 Visual Analysis Using Your Charts:

Chart 1: Short-Term Wobble

The first chart shows Apple doing a bit of a balancing act near $220. One slip, and it could be like rolling off the picnic table. But if support holds, we could be looking at a rebound – or what we like to call a ‘Newtonian bounce’ 🍏🍎!

Chart 2: Long-Term Orchard View

The second chart zooms out, showing Apple close to the bottom of its long-term trend channel. Historically, this area has been a soft cushion 🍃 – fingers crossed it doesn’t turn into a hard landing!

🌐 Rival Round-Up:

Apple’s rivals are jockeying for position in the big tech race:

• Microsoft (MSFT) 🟢 15 🟡 3 🔴 1

• Alphabet (GOOGL) 🟢 17 🟡 4 🔴 1

• Amazon (AMZN) 🟢 18 🟡 5 🔴 0

The tech battle is fierce, with Microsoft and Alphabet nipping at Apple’s heels. Talk about a royal rumble in Silicon Valley! 🤼‍♂️

🧩 Fun Fact:

Did you know? Apple was the first company to hit $1 trillion and then $2 trillion in market cap – it’s like they’re hoarding gold apples! And remember when Apple launched its Genius Bars? They’ve since become the ‘bartenders’ of tech support – serving solutions rather than cocktails 🍸.

📅 Seasonal Apple Picking Insight:

Historically, November’s been a season of redemption for Apple after an October wobble. This could be another year where AAPL springs back to life – stay tuned to see if history repeats itself.

Happy trading ahead. Cheers, BC 🍀

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🇺🇸 Warren Buffett sold another $14.3 BILLION of Apple, during Q3 2024.

‼️Buffett now holds $325.2 billion in CASH and selling stocks like never before, including Apple and Bank of America.

Is he getting ready for a crash?