The Canadian Dollar's Effect On The iPhone


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Barclays on Monday issued an update on the telecommunications industry, commenting on the Canadian dollar's effect on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and the iPhone. Heading into the holiday shopping season, promotional activity has increased to attract customers amid the weakening Canadian dollar.

Analyst Phillip Huang wrote, "While the levels of promotional activity into Black Friday has certainly picked up relative to the prior year we note that overall prices are largely unchanged versus last year due to the significantly weakened Canadian dollar."

Discounts have not been limited to the actual iPhone hardware, but have been seen in data plans. Barclays believes the discounts will support wireless margins in the fourth quarter.

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Important to Barclays is the double cohort effect, which should be lessened due to increased headset costs relative to the prior year, caused primarily by the weakened Canadian dollar. Barclays also sees the importance of data plans as they are high margin items and estimates point that 30 percent of industry subscribers are off contract.

Shares of Apple last closed at $117.81 and recently traded at $119, up about 1 percent on Monday morning.


27% profit every 20 days?

This is what Nic Chahine averages with his option buys. Not selling covered calls or spreads… BUYING options. Most traders don’t even have a winning percentage of 27% buying options. He has an 83% win rate. Here’s how he does it.


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