Friday, March 30, 2012

The S&P 500 with and without Apple: Round 2


CNNMoney by Phillip Elmer-DeWitt
View Original Article HERE

The picture is even more striking than it was a month ago


In February, Jonathan Golub at UBS started a new fashion on the Street by publishing two versions of his regular quarterly forecast: one for the S&P 500, and another for what he called the "S&P 500 ex-Apple."

Strategists at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Barclays and Wells Fargo soon followed suit.

In Golub's February calculation, the S&P 500's Q1 2012 earnings were on track to rise 6.8% with Apple (AAPL), but would shrivel to 2.8% without. MORE................

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