{"id":8047,"date":"2012-03-19T23:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T21:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=8047"},"modified":"2012-03-19T23:01:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T21:01:32","slug":"apples-stock-closes-above-600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/8047\/apples-stock-closes-above-600\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s stock closes above $600"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s stock has closed above $600 for the first time, the same day the company announced plans to reward its shareholders with a dividend and a share buyback program.<\/p>\n<p>The stock increased $15.53, or 2.65 percent, to close Monday at $601.10. It rallied in the final minutes of trading to reach that threshold.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the stock reached $600.01 briefly before falling to a closing price of $585.56.<\/p>\n<p>Apple is the world&#8217;s most valuable company, with a market capitalization of nearly $555 billion. It topped $500 billion for the first time in late February, a market value peak where few companies have ventured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s stock has closed above $600 for the first time, the same day the company announced plans to reward its shareholders with a dividend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,51],"class_list":["post-8047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8049,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions\/8049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}