Apple pours hundreds of billions into the United States after the CEO met Trump

Technology company Apple will invest $ 500 billion in the United States over the next four years. In euros, the whole is about 478 billion in the current course.

The company also intends to hire 20,000 new employees around the country. A huge server factory will be built in Texas, which should create thousands of jobs.

This is the biggest investment in the company’s history for its domestic market. It tells about the matter In a bulletin published on Monday.

Managing director Tim Cook It states that the company will continue to make efforts “to write an exceptionally new chapter in the history of American innovation”.

Investment is the reaction of the president Donald Trump to protectionist politics, estimate Financial Media Bloomberg and Reuters news agency. Cook and Trump met last Thursday in a white house.

Trump claims According to Bloombergthat he was able to prevent Apple’s plans to build factories in Mexico. By investing in the home country, the company avoids the president’s customs.

However, a flamboyant 500 billion pot does not go directly to the IT industry, but dollars make movies and TV shows for Apple+, for example.

According to the company, it employs about 2.9 million people directly and indirectly in the United States. Apple also shelled $ 19 billion taxes last year.

Although The amounts sound exceptional, Reuters states that Apple said that in the first season of Trump, he would invest $ 350 billion in his home market in five years.

The impact of the latest investment on the company’s stock price was subdued. The company’s share course moved by less than 1 % in the technology exchange in Nasdaq after well -traded on Monday.

Apple At the same time, the last time business seems promising to be threatened.

In October -December of the year, net sales were approximately $ 124 billion and a profit of just over $ 36 billion. Net sales increased by four percent and earnings by about seven percent, compared to the last quarter of the year.

Cook said the quarter was the best in the company’s history ever.

Sales growth However, there was less than market expectations. Apple phones meet a tough headwind in China, where local brands eat the iPhone station.