U.S. President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner shake fingers on the day they current Apple’s announcement of a $100 billion funding in U.S. manufacturing, within the Oval Workplace on the White Home in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 6, 2025.
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Apple shares rose 13% this week, its largest weekly achieve in additional than 5 years, after CEO Tim Cook dinner appeared with President Donald Trump within the White Home on Wednesday.
Shares of the iPhone maker rose 4% to shut at $229.35 per share on Friday for the corporate’s largest weekly achieve since July 2020. The week’s transfer added over $400 billion to Apple’s market cap, which now sits at $3.4 trillion.
Apple is the third-most worthwhile firm, behind Nvidia and Microsoft and forward of Alphabet and Amazon.
On the White Home on Wednesday, Cook dinner appeared with Trump to announce Apple’s plans to spend $100 billion on American firms and American elements over the following 4 years.
Apple’s plans to purchase extra American chips happy Trump, who stated through the public assembly that as a result of the corporate was constructing within the U.S., it will be exempt from future tariffs that might double the worth of imported chips.
Traders had fearful that a few of Trump’s tariffs might considerably damage Apple’s profitability. Apple warned in July that it anticipated over $1 billion in tariff prices within the present quarter, assuming no modifications.
“Apple and Tim Cook dinner delivered a masterclass in managing uncertainty after months and months of overhang relative to the potential challenges the corporate might face from tariffs,” JP Morgan analyst Samik Chatterjee wrote on Wednesday. He has an chubby score on Apple’s inventory.
Cook dinner’s profitable White Home assembly additionally comes two weeks after Apple reported June quarter earnings by which general income jumped 10% and iPhone gross sales grew by 13%.
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