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Financial Observers Chuckle As Icahn Gives Apple Advice

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Mark Melin
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Carl Icahn giving marching orders to the most successful firm in the world, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), comes across as a “little hubristic,” Barry Ritholtz noted on Bloomberg TV yesterday.

Financial Observers Chuckle As Icahn Gives Apple Advice

Icahn questions Apple's track record, Ritholtz goes sarcastic

While he respects the activist investor Ichan, Ritholtz pauses when he sees a company with Apple’s track record being questioned. “You’ve gotta wonder about everyone offering ideas, suggestions and criticism for a company that has been by any possible measure widely, widely successful.”

Not only is Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)  credited as being the largest and most influential companies to shape modern...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.