Apple is worth more than our entire Belgium stockmarket

Apple, the world leading company in IT-products, has been a sharply growing enterprise since its foundation in 1976, now it even reached a point on which its entire value is bigger than the one of an important European country, Belgium.

By surpassing Microsoft, the former IT-leading enterprise, Apple has become the second most valuable company of the world, with a market value of almost 260 billion dollars they're only inferior to Exxon, a petrochemical giant.
Both the IT-sector and our general Belgium economy have had some tough times, but apparently Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, made the right choice by continuing to focus on the production of innovating products while our country had no idea how to resolve this crisis.
These findings might offcourse misrepresent the situation a little bit, because it's hard to compare the economy of a coutry and that of a single company, but it says a lot about Apple, and perhaps even more about Belgium ..

Simon Savaete

Bron: Het Nieuwsblad, 2 october 2010