{"id":9099,"date":"2012-04-03T18:01:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T16:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=9099"},"modified":"2012-04-03T18:02:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T16:02:47","slug":"apple-shares-will-hit-usd1001-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/9099\/apple-shares-will-hit-usd1001-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple shares will hit USD1,001 &#8211; analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc shares are set to rocket to $1,001 within the next 12 months as it branches into new markets and expands its footprint in China, predicted Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Driven by an ever expanding portfolio of innovative products, a growing integrated digital grid, unmatched aesthetics and a brand that is able to touch the soul of consumers of all backgrounds, Apple fever is spreading like a wildfire around the world and we see no end in sight to this trend,&#8221; White wrote in an April 2 note initiating coverage of Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of Apple are trading up about 1.5 percent to $628.20 in early trade on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Many observers had once cast doubts that Apple could even hit $500 and $600 price targets. Today, the median price target on its shares stands slightly below $700, according to Thomson Reuters data.<\/p>\n<p>Now Apple is the world&#8217;s most valuable company with an array of products that have shaken up the music, media and technology industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc shares are set to rocket to $1,001 within the next 12 months as it branches into new markets and expands its footprint in China, predicted Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,51,319,173],"class_list":["post-9099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-prediction","tag-shares"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9101,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099\/revisions\/9101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}