Principal Of Financial Markets Apple Inc. - 1004 Words

PRINCIPAL OF FINANCIAL MARKETS ASSIGNMENT 1. Introduction Apple Inc. and Microsoft INC are the most popular and oldest company in the field of technology. Below we have shown the data and facts of the two companies and shown the comparison between them and also how different market factors have affected them. 2. BACKGROUND IN FORMATION OF APPLE INC. APPLE is a technology company from America whose headquarters is in California. It mainly deals in electronic, computer software’s and many other online services. It also designs these stuffs. The hardware products of apple include IPHONE, IPAD, MAC COMPUTER and apple SMARTWATCH. APPLE was established in April 1 1976 by three people namely a) Steve Jobs b) Steve Wozniak c) Ronald Wayne. It was†¦show more content†¦This valuable company was establish on April 4 1975 and founded by a) Paul Allen b) Bill Gates Historical data says the Microsoft have created lots of millionaires through its product in mids 80. But in current generation due to introduction of android and also many other companies are in competition. 4. Below are the factors that are used to check the market risk of the two companies due to their change. GDP GROWTH (Gross Domestic Product) GDP is the factor that is used to check the health of company’s economy. In Australia GDP is reported by the group of world bank. The GDP of Australia in the year 2014 was estimated to be 1453.77 billion. Australia’s GDP values 2.34 % of the world’s economy INTEREST RATE. Reserve Bank of Australia is fully responsible for setting the interest rate. According to the latest information receive the interest rate of Australia is 2.00 %. Interest rate is a very important factor which affects most of the companies as no company can run without funds from bank. EXCHANGE RATES All the profit made by the company through exports depends on the exchange rates. If the exchange rate is high prices decrease but if fallen prices increase. As the exchange rate of Australia is fluctuating, currently the exchange rate of Australia is $1=0.72 US$ 5. Effects of GDP, exchange rate and interest rate on APPLE GDP. As we know Australia GDP is 2.34% of the world’s economy. As it