How Apple Bubbled to the Top in a Boiling Economic Soup
After teasing Exxon Mobile Tuesday by momentarily besting the oil giant for the position of the world's most valuable publicly traded company, Apple ended the day Wednesday with the highest market capitalization in the world. At Wednesday's close, Apple was trading at $363.69, for a market cap of $337.2 billion, compared to Exxon's $330.8 billion.
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