{"id":135325,"date":"2025-10-21T04:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/135325\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T04:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:51:13","slug":"apple-shares-hit-record-high-amid-iphone-demand-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/135325\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple shares hit record high amid iPhone demand boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Apple chief executive officer Tim Cook holds the Apple iPhone 17 Pro (left) and iPhone Air during an event in California last month. Photo: Bloomberg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IB iphone.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Apple chief executive officer Tim Cook holds the Apple iPhone 17 Pro (left) and iPhone Air during an event in California last month. Photo: Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Apple shares hit their first record of the year yesterday after Loop Capital upgraded the stock to buy from hold, becoming the latest firm to cite positive iPhone demand trends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Shares rose as much as 3.1pc to $260.20 (\u20ac223.25) taking out an all-time high that had stood since December. Apple had been a high-profile underperformer among S&amp;P 500 Index stocks for much of the year, down as much as 31pc at its worst point in April. But since then the iPhone maker has soared more than 50pc, finally turning positive for the year in late September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple chief executive officer Tim Cook holds the Apple iPhone 17 Pro (left) and iPhone Air during an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[15808,18,19,17,279,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-135325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-apple-company","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-mobile","13":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}