that ban monday. u.s. futures are higher. the dow has surged 1750 points, that is 8%, since that awful christmas eve. the market has been rebounding lastly, but it isn t the case for everyone. apple shares fell again yesterday slightly. but the stock has fallen 36% since october 3. apple has now fallen behind amazon, google in market value. apple has lost 5$500 billion in market value. $500 billion. and that is just the size of the 25th largest economy in the world. isn t that something? bigger than most companies. but they have an iphone problem, so much of its fortune relies on those high margin iphones. with china slowing a bit and with the iphonesaturation, one wonders what that growth will be. ahead, kevin spacey pleading not guilty on charges that he groped an 18-year-old bus boy in
it s not behind the scenes. it s a well documented white house power struggle. globalist jared curb tkpher versus steve bannon. things started heating up wednesday. the white house says he was only on there to keep an eye on michael flynn. the vice president insisted, though, it was not a demotion. this from the new york times . mr. bannon resisted the move, even threatening to quit if it went forward. bannon tells nbc news that was total nonsense. bannon threatened to take his talents elsewhere. then 24 hours ago, the wall street journal reports a west wing shake-up is in the works. it could leave bannon and pry bus without jobs. the white house pushes back and says that is completely false. now to today, 2:00 p.m. hour eastern. a source confirms to nbc news a meeting was held between priebus, ban monday, and kushner. it ended with people feeling they were on the same page.