IBM vs. Apple

By Chris Hill | More Articles
October 11, 2011 | Comments (1)

On today's MarketFoolery podcast, we discuss shares of IBM (NYSE: IBM ) hitting an all-time high and talk about whether they'll outperform shares of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL ) over the next five years. Other topics include Unilever (NYSE: UN ) subsidiary Ben & Jerry's voicing its support for the "Occupy Wall Street" movement and the challenge General Mills (NYSE: GIS ) and Campbell's Soup (NYSE: CPB ) face in balancing healthier products against profits.

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The Steve Jobs Betrayal
You may already know that in the final year of his life, Jobs revealed a stunning betrayal — and told his biographer, "I will spend my last dying breath... and every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank to right this wrong." What was it that made Jobs so irate — and why could it make a few in-the-know investors some major profits over the coming months and years?

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