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Apple Becomes World's 1st Private-Sector Company Worth $1 Trillion

The tech giant and the world's most valuable publicly traded company became first to reach the milestone market value. Amazon is also approaching $1 trillion in value, but Apple got there first.
Apple, the world's most valuable publicly traded company, became the first to reach the milestone $1 trillion market value.

Apple became the first private-sector company in history to be worth $1 trillion, after its share price reached an all-time high above $207 on Thursday.

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