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Thank you. Wondry. I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this Monday, June 15th.

Last Wednesday, Apple became the first publicly traded American company

to reach a $1.5 trillion dollar valuation. That's right. The Silicon Valley superstar

continued its sky-high trajectory, despite being closed to foot traffic all over the world since

March. Perhaps even more remarkable than the news of Apple's record-breaking valuation was that

the same day, Microsoft also crossed the $1.5 trillion mark. Share prices of Google and Amazon shot up

as well, although their market valuations didn't quite achieve such celestial levels.

Prior to Wednesday, the only publicly traded company in the world

worth that much was oil company Saudi Aramco. It went public last December. So why the sudden

jump in the market? Analysts say investors like big tech right now, because lockdowns have made

us more dependent on technology for work and leisure than ever before.

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