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Apple Biggest Loser As Stock Crash Wipes Out $2.3 Trillion From Market

When it comes to destroying market value, Apple is in a class of its own. The company has erased a staggering $51.1 billion in investor wealth this year following its 8.8% decline this year to $96 a share.

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The stock market rout is starting to get really expensive – destroying $2.3 trillion from the market’s top last year and $1.5 trillion in net wealth just this year.

“For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.” Isaiah 52:3 (KJV)

The giant companies that predominantly populate the Standard & Poor’s 500 have fallen an average of 9.2% this year – which when translated into dollars – is real money. Real big money. The S&P 500 is down 8.1% this year already – including another 2.3% Friday – in what’s been one of the worst starts to a year ever. Since the market peak on May 21, 2015, the market has declined 11.9%.

The biggest wealth destroyers from the high have been gadget maker Apple (AAPL), pipeline company Kinder Morgan (KMI) and corporate software company Oracle (ORCL) – crushing $224 billion, $63 billion and $49.6 billion in market value, respectively, from the May 21, 2015 top.

S&P 500 STOCKS THAT DESTROYED THE MOST SHAREHOLDER WEALTH FROM THE MAY 21, 2015 TOP

Company, Symbol, % lost from high, $ market value erased from the high ($ billions)

Apple, AAPL, -26.9%, -$224.4

Kinder Morgan, KMI, -69.5%, -$63.5

Berkshire Hathaway, BRKA, -22.7%, -$49.6

Wal-Mart Stores, WMT, -13.3%, -$47.5

Qualcomm, QCOM, -18.3%, -$46.4

Source: S&P Capital IQ, USA TODAY

This year, most of the money is being shredded by the giant companies that many U.S. investors loaded up on during the bull including gadget maker Apple (AAPL), online retailer Amazon.com (AMZN) and online advertising firm Alphabet(GOOGL).

When it comes to destroying market value, Apple is in a class of its own.

Apple has erased a staggering $51.1 billion in investor wealth this year following its 8.8% decline this year to $96 a share. More than $200 billion in market value has been erased by just this one stock from the market high – which is more than a vast majority of big companies are worth.

  • “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Matthew 6:21 (KJV)

Red hot retailer Amazon is down a whopping 16% this year – after more than doubling in value in 2015. That means investors in Amazon are down $49 billion this year. Google’s parent Alphabet is also taking the shredder to investors’ money – falling 8.6% this year to $46.2 billion.

When you see how much money is being erased by the biggest companies – you can see why this sell-off is getting uncomfortable … and expensive.

S&P 500 STOCKS THAT DESTROYED THE MOST SHAREHOLDER WEALTH THIS YEAR

Company, Symbol, % lost YTD, $ market value erased YTD ($ billions)

Apple, AAPL, -8.8%, -$51.1

Amazon.com, AMZN, -15.6%, -$49.3

Alphabet, GOOGL, -8.6%, -$46.2

Microsoft, MSFT, -7.8%, -$34.4

JPMorgan Chase, JPM, -13.4%, -$32.7

Facebook, FB, -9.9%, -$29.4

Wells Fargo, WFC, -9.9%, -$27.5

Citigroup, C, -17.4%, -$26.9

General Electric, GE, -8.4%, -$24.6

Bank of America, BAC, -14%, -$24.5

Intel, INTC, -14%, -$24.5

Cisco Systems, CSCO, -11.8%, -$16.2

Home Depot, HD, -9.3%, -$15.6

Source: S&P Capital IQ, USA TODAY

“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” 1 Timothy 6:10 (KJV)

 

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NTEB RADIO BIBLE STUDY: Understanding The Role Of Water Baptism In New Testament Salvation In The Life Of The Born Again Believer In Jesus Christ

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In our dispensation, water baptism doesn’t save you, not even a little bit, but believing the gospel Paul preached for salvation sure does

Last Sunday, Hollywood actor Russell Brand told the world he ‘got baptized and became a Christian’, last year hundreds of people were baptized in the wake of the ‘Jesus Revolution’ movie, Kanye West had his children baptized in Israel, and the list goes on and on. What you rarely, if ever, hear, is a biblical testimony of salvation that should absolutely precede the ‘glorious!, awesome!, I feel so clean!’ moment of water baptism. More importantly, what does your King James Bible have to say about baptism? Let’s find out.

“And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.” Acts 8:36,37 (KJB)

On this episode of Rightly Dividing, every time a famous person gets baptized, the knee-jerk reaction is always to believe they’ve also gotten saved, and that is a theologically dangerous place to be. John the Baptist baptized people, but it was with the understanding that it was preparing them to meet the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world. Peter preached water baptism that was connected to salvation, true, but he was preaching to Jews awaiting the Kingdom of Heaven at the Second Advent. The apostle Paul does not preach baptism at all, in his gospel salvation is by grace through faith alone. What must I do to be saved? Believe the gospel, full stop. Tonight we show you the dispensational nature of water baptism, and exactly where it belongs in the life of a born again Christian living in the Church Age.

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Kristallnacht Comes To Hamilton Hall At Columbia University With ‘Night Of Broken Glass’ In Support Of Hamas, Openly Calling For Genocide Of The Jews

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The Kristallnacht takeover of Hamilton Hall by pro-Palestinian protesters comes after the university announced it was suspending students after previously asking protesters involved in the anti-Israel encampment to leave by 2:00 p.m.

The breaking of the glass windows at Hamilton Hall at Columbia University last night was done in a careful, methodical and highly intentional way. The breakers of the glass very much wanted to bring to your remembrance an event that took place in Nazi Germany in 1938 called Kristallnacht, the ‘night of broken glass’. This seminal event was the kick-off to the 7 years of Jewish-specific concentration camps which would extinguish the lives of 6 million Jews. This is exactly what the rioters at Columbia University wanted you to think of last night. The horror of the gas chambers and the ovens was the end point for what started with Nazi soldiers writing threatening words on the windows of Jewish shopkeepers using a ten cent bar of soap. Think about that.

“Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.” Jeremiah 16:16 (KJB)

This world is preparing itself to receive Antichrist, and because of that, we are seeing a huge uptick in violent antisemitism not only in America but around the world as well. On college campuses like Columbia, they are calling for the genocide of the Jews to such a degree that Jewish students can no longer attend classes. Columbia University officials are advising “members of the University community” to avoid going to the Morningside campus if possible on Tuesday in light of the protesters occupying Hamilton Hall, according to a campus alert from Columbia Public Safety. This not only antisemitism, this is the end times. Pick a side, Christian, pick a side. Am Yisrael Chai.

Anti-Israel Protesters Seize Administrative Building at Columbia University

FROM BREITBART NEWS: Anti-Israel protesters involved in an encampment at Columbia University took over an administrative building early Tuesday morning. Video footage posted to X showed anti-Israel protesters carrying barricades into Hamilton Hall, an academic building on the university’s campus.

In its Telegram channel, Within Our Lifetime (WOL) Palestine posted an announcement calling for protection of the anti-Israel encampment on the campus.

“Student organizers have called on everyone to come to Columbia TONIGHT and defend the encampment after administration’s threats this morning,” the group wrote in a post on the channel.

Other videos posted to X showed anti-Israel protesters smashing the glass doors of Hamilton Hall, as people can be heard chanting, “Disclose. Divest. We will not stop, we will not rest.” Anti-Israel protesters who occupied Hamilton Hall were photographed hanging pro-Palestinian posters from the windows of the building. Protesters were videotaped hanging a banner from the windows of the building that read, “Intifada,” as anti-Israel protesters can be heard chanting, “Free, free, free, free, Palestine. From the river to the sea…”

The takeover of Hamilton Hall by pro-Palestinian protesters comes after the university announced it was suspending students after previously asking protesters involved in the anti-Israel encampment to leave by 2:00 p.m.

An initial encampment was started on Columbia University’s campus on April 17. The next day several students were suspended, and hundreds of protesters involved in the encampment were arrested. Columbia University had removed the initial encampment, but since then, it has returned. Since the start of the encampment at Columbia University, others have been established at the University of California Los Angeles, Yale University, Harvard University, George Washington University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among others. READ MORE

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Jews Have Been Driven Off Of Campus At Columbia University As Violent Pro-Hamas And Anti-Israel Protests Threaten To Spread Across Nation

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Student demonstrators at Columbia University have forced Jews off campus, as tensions rose on the campus at the epicenter of pro-Palestinian anti-Israel protests across US colleges.

A storm is brewing on college campuses across America, to quote Uncle Billy from ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’, it’s shaping up to be a squall. Nearly all the Jewish students at Columbia University have been driven off campus due to the violent threats and incendiary rhetoric coming from the pro-Hamas and pro-Palestinian rioters at the school. The Declaration of Independence says “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble…” Once things turn ugly, the protest has become a riot, and that is not protected by our Constitution.

“And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.” Matthew 27:37 (KJB)

If you are old enough to remember the protests on college campuses over the Vietnam War, then much of what you’re seeing right now is eerily reminiscent of that time. You will also remember that when other agitator factions entered into the mix, things got real violent real fast, and people started dying. If present trends continue, I would have to believe that we are getting close to that scenario once again. The presidential conventions for the GOP and DNC are in July and August respectively, and it’s a pretty fair bet that these riots will be present during those gatherings.

Columbia University on edge as talks collapse over Gaza protests

FROM BREITBART NEWS: Police arrested around 275 people on four separate campuses in the United States over the weekend, with the White House calling on the growing protests in recent weeks to remain peaceful. Columbia University said Monday that many Jewish students have left its campus and it demanded that the protestors’ encampment must be cleared, adding that Columbia would not divest financial holdings linked to Israel — a key demand of demonstrators.

Students pushed back, vowing to defend their camp on the New York institution’s main lawn, despite the threat of suspensions and disciplinary action from the college. As of midday only students with university ID cards were free to walk onto campus, AFP observed.

Columbia University classics professor Joseph Howley told AFP the school’s statement Monday amounted to yielding to outside political pressure. He said Columbia is “affirming the false premise that the mere presence of political speech on behalf of Palestine is a threat to Jews like myself.”

He called such a position “absurd and dangerous.”

Protests against the Gaza war, with its high civilian death toll among Palestinian civilians, have posed a challenge to university administrators trying to balance free speech rights with complaints that the rallies have veered into anti-Semitism and hate speech.

For almost two weeks now a wave of protests against Israel’s war in Gaza has swept across US university campuses, coast to coast, after beginning at Columbia. Around 100 protesters were arrested there April 18. Footage of police in riot gear and summoned by university officials to break up rallies have been viewed around the world, recalling the protest movement that erupted during the Vietnam war.

At University of California, Los Angeles skirmishes broke out Sunday between pro-Palestinian protesters and supporters of Israel. These nationwide rallies have reignited debate on freedom of expression, anti-Zionism and what kind of language or behavior amount to being anti-Semitic.

The Gaza war started when Hamas militants staged an unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7 that left around 1,170 people dead, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures. Palestinian militants also took roughly 250 people hostage. Israel estimates 129 remain in Gaza, including 34 the military says are dead. READ MORE

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When you contribute to this fundraising effort, you are helping us to do what the Lord called us to do. The money you send in goes primarily to the overall daily operations of this site. When people ask for Bibles, we send them out at no charge. When people write in and say how much they would like gospel tracts but cannot afford them, we send them a box at no cost to them for either the tracts or the shipping, no matter where they are in the world. We have a Gospel Billboard program. We are now broadcasting Bible studies, Podcasts and a Sunday Service 5 times a week, thanks to your generous donations. All this is possible because YOU pray for us, YOU support us, and YOU give so we can continue growing.

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But whatever you do, don’t do nothing. Time is short and we need your help right now. The Lord has given us an open door with a tremendous ‘course’ for us to fulfill that will create an excellent experience at the Judgement Seat of Christ. Please pray for our efforts, and if the Lord leads you to donate, be as generous as possible. The war is REAL, the battle HOT and the time is SHORTTO THE FIGHT!!!

“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;” Titus 2:13 (KJB)

“Thank you very much!” – Geoffrey, editor-in-chief, NTEB

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