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AAPL Jan 2025 205.000 call
- Yahoo Finance
Apple looks to Southeast Asia, India as hedge against China difficulties
Apple is looking to increase its manufacturing presence in Southeast Asia and its market share in India as China troubles loom.
- Reuters
UPDATE 1-DR Congo presses Apple over minerals supply chain, lawyers say
Democratic Republic of Congo is pushing Apple Inc for more information about its supply chain over concerns it may be tainted with conflict minerals sourced from the country, international lawyers engaged by Congo said on Thursday. Congo, particularly its eastern region, has been plagued by violence since the 1990s, killing millions as struggles over national identity, ethnicity, and resources saw neighbouring countries invade and a myriad of armed groups spring up. Conflict has arisen over the control of illicit trade in tin and gold as well as in coltan and tantalum - widely used in cell phones and computers - all mined in Congo before being smuggled out through neighbouring Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi.
- Associated Press Finance
Congo questions Apple over knowledge of conflict minerals in its supply chain
Congo ’s government is questioning Apple about the tech company’s knowledge of “blood minerals” from a conflict zone in the African country that could be smuggled into its supply chains and is demanding answers within three weeks. A group of international lawyers representing Congo said Thursday that they sent letters to Apple’s CEO Tim Cook and its French subsidiary this week, raising concerns about human rights violations involving the minerals extracted from mines in the country’s troubled east that might end up being used in the company’s products.
