Apple's Stock Surges to $500; Market Value Near $500 Billion

You people are idiots, do you really think Apple is the only company using Chineese labor, how many other American companies are over there, you couldn't even count that high. I say way to go Apple!!! Keep up the good work. I can't wait to buy a new iTV. And I wonder just how many of you have iPods???? That's right...I thought so!!!

Stock just reached $500 and the writer is talking about a $1,037 price already. Stupid. Why not just extrapolate this to when AAPL market cap will equal US GDP then?

It won't reach the trillion dollar mark, A very successful company that could easily buy a chartered bank, were it not for restrictions for foreign ownership, They have some 98 billlion dollars in cash, An enormous amount.

Who says slave labor conditions does not help the bottom line or executives' bonuses?

Bought AAPL for 160 back in 2008. Almost 4 years later its 500. Best investment decision I've made so far. Don't envy me.......

Dow 13000 while the western world is drowning in debt? Not with my money! This market is for bagholders.

The bubble is getting bigger and bigger and soon it will at some point burst.

$17.00 a day?!? what factory have you been looking at?? thats just crazy. there is NO WAY that they would ever pay them that much. i'd say thats about $16.50 overrpriced, and thats for people over the age of 6.

Do not be dupes. Do not fall for this propaganda. They are on the verge of major financial loses in 2013. SELL SELL SELL

Gee maybe they can pay their workers in China more than $17.00 a day. 200000 people housed in warehouses andnot allowed to leave is deplorable. If we did that to animals we would never buy products from that company but because it is the Chinese people it appears to be ok for all the apple iphonies. Personally I will never own an Apple product, this is capitalism at its absoulute worst. Deplorable working conditions, child labor, slave labor and the USA turns a blind eye. Shame on all of us. This company could build their products in America, pay their workers decent wages and still make record profits...Shame on STeve Jobs legacy... slave labor in China.. We need to have a humanitarian tax onthese technology companies, 10, 000% if they want to sell their products in North America. If you want to build your products abroad at least pay your workers a decent wage and allow them to go home at night. What Apple and all technology companies in the USA are doing is criminal and inhumane. It compares to the Nazi work camps in Germany. Give me socialism over capitalism anyday if this is the result. OMG!

Wow. Lots of jealous haters posting today. They're obviously too stupid to understand good technology and/or too poor to afford it. So they put it down in a pathetic attempt to make themselves feel superior. What a bunch of posers.

If one of these folks can run the US government.

Even at $500 per share, Apple is still way undervalued.

Apple is doomed. They said this about Cisco when it was worth 600 billion and look what happened.

"Apple, whose price hit $500 for the first time on Monday, could be the first company ever to reach a trillion dollar valuation." Oh, oh. I smell bubble talk.

well of course..its made in china...CEO make billion .where the suckers.just more jobs for china...why can't apple help there own american people for jobs huh....

Nothing different from 1999 when Qualcomm jumped $160 one day and was predicted to top $1000 easily. I guess QCOM is available at $61 today.

It's funny how the Dragons on TV don't like paying for a company several times more or above what its currently worth, but stock market speculators/investors usually pay many multiples/times more/over what a company is worth (over inflated prices) that can usually result in losses later.

great job apple

These Yahoo! articles are so biased. You never see any other tech giant with news on the front page. It's like Apple owns Yahoo.

Suggesting that Apple will hit at least a stock value of $700 and then hit $1037, is just completely ridiculous. This is how Apple makes their money, through crappy articles that state that their stocks will grow. It is all just fake confidence, that puts the reader in the spot to buy Apple stocks.

Honestly, if there weren't so many Yahoo! articles adoring Apple, Apple's stock wouldn't be over 500 right now. Everyday, there's an article basing another tech giant (especially RIM), and there's another article glorifying Apple.

Seriously, Yahoo! needs to stop with the bias.