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Speaker 1: Shares of Apple are down about one and a half

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Speaker 1: Find out more. Let's bringing John Petridis. He is Managing

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Speaker 1: New Jersey. John, thank you for being with us, Thanks

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Speaker 1: for having me on. So are any of these announcements

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