As Microsoft moves closer to unseating Apple as the world’s most valuable company, the WSJ’s Dan Gallagher looks at the company’s steady rise over the last 10 years. Photo: Associated PressApple’s woes in China, which have caused the company to cut its quarterly sales forecast for the first time in 15 years, may have come as a shock. In truth, we should have seen it coming. That isn’t because investors ought to have identified Apple as a potential victim of the U.S.-China trade fight. There may be some Chinese consumers who have spurned its phones for patriotic reasons in recent months, but the evidence for a widespread Apple boycott is thin.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 03, 2019 09:21 UTC