Today, two things happened:
1. Apple split its stock in a 4:1 ratio.
You owned a single share of Apple yesterday at $500. Today, you own 4 shares at an initial value of $125.
2. Tesla split its stock in a 5:1 split.
Yesterday, you owned a single share of Tesla valued at $2,200 and today, you will own 5 shares valued at $440/each.
Beautiful day in the lovely city of Atlanta enroute back to Savannah from whence I fled Dorian the Hurricane Monster. It was a pleasant diversion with one of the highlights being the Georgia Aquarium, a recommendation from a pal/reader. Great recommendation.
So, Apple has just sold some corporate bonds. Corporate bond yields are trending down with the general flight from equities into bonds. But, Apple doesn’t pay general corporate bond yield prices — about 6% for others.
No, sir.
Apple placed $7B of 3 to 30 year maturities at very tight spreads above Treasuries. They had intended to place $3-4B, but the book grew so quickly (more than $25B in offers to buy Apple bonds), they went with the bigger number.
If you own an Apple phone and use Siri — face it, who doesn’t — you may not realize that when you found yourself in an “intimate” moment, you may really have been enjoying a threesome with Siri.
Apple had a program wherein they captured “inadvertent” conversations including you doing the wild thing [or discussing that rash, or doing a drug deal, or plotting a watermelon theft] with your beloved and allowed contractors to evaluate them to see how this problem happened.
“Babe, who is that?” asks the beloved just as you unleash your secret, death defying, all satisfying power move.
“Oh, that’s Tim Cook’s pal, Siri.”
“Babe, that’s creepy.”
“Shh, now where were we, beloved? Oh, yes, my power move. Come here, dumpling.”
Of course, they forgot to tell you that you and the dumpling were providing “content” for the contractors.
Yes, this really happened.
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