Today’s Big Story: Apple To Make iPhone For Verizon

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The most interesting stock market story today is a report from The Wall Street Journal that Apple is making an iPhone for Verizon (VZ): “New iPhone Could End AT&T’s U.S. Monopoly”, The Wall Street Journal, March 30, B1.  Since 2007, Apple has had an exclusive iPhone partnership with AT&T (T).

The iPhone dominates the fast growing and high margin smart phone business and so this news is shaking up the industry.  Verizon’s network is CDMA as opposed to AT&T’s which is GSM.  Qualcomm (QCOM) is the leading maker of CDMA chips for cell phones.  Here are how the stocks of some of the parties are performing today:

Apple (AAPL): +1.51%

Verizon (VZ): +3.19%

AT&T (T): -1.62%

Qualcomm (QCOM): +0.62%

Research In Motion (RIMM): -1.33%

For more on AT&T and Verizon, see my “Top Gun FP Client Note: Two Stocks For A Range Bound Market”.

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