iPhone需求前景推升蘋果股價 Apple buoyed on bullish iPhone prospects

Apple shares rose on Tuesday, further narrowing their decline over the past year, after an investment bank issued a bullish note on iPhone demand.

蘋果(Apple)股價週二上揚，進一步收窄了過去一年的跌幅，此前一家投資銀行發佈了對iPhone的需求表示樂觀的報告。

Demand for the smartphone, which is Apple’s most important product, is tracking at 56.5m units for the quarter to the end of March, according to an analysis of web search data by Morgan Stanley. That is “clearly ahead of expectations as investors are sceptical Apple can reach implied guidance of 52m,” the New York-based investment bank said.

摩根士丹利(Morgan Stanley)對網絡搜索數據的分析顯示，在截至3月底的第一季度，這款智能手機（蘋果最重要的產品）的需求有望達到5650萬部。這家總部位於紐約的投行表示，這“顯然超出預期，投資者正對蘋果能否達到5200萬部的隱含銷售指引表示懷疑。”

Anxiety has been rising about slowing sales growth for the iPhone, which accounted for more than two-thirds of Apple’s total revenue in the previous quarter, due to saturation in the domestic market and economic headwinds from China, a key growth driver for the world’s biggest publicly traded company.

iPhone佔到蘋果上季度總營收的逾三分之二，但美國國內市場飽和以及中國經濟遭遇阻力促使市場對iPhone銷售增長放緩日益焦慮。中國是這家全球市值最高上市公司的關鍵增長動力。

However, Morgan’s data point to positive year-on-year and sequential gains to the end of February in China, as “growth improved in most regions”.

然而，摩根士丹利的數據表明，截至2月底，蘋果在中國的同比及環比表現均爲正數，與此同時，“增長在大部分地區都有所改善”。

Apple’s shares climbed 2.3 per cent, making the Cupertino, California-based company the second-best performer on the S&P 500. The stock is now essentially flat for 2016, having been down as much as 12.2 per cent on a year-to-date basis in late January. It is off 16.2 per cent over the past 12 months.

蘋果股價上漲了2.3%，使這家總部位於加州庫比蒂諾的公司成爲標準普爾500指數(S&P 500)中表現第二優秀的個股。蘋果股價2016年以來持平，從年初到1月下旬曾下滑12.2%。過去12個月累計下跌16.2%。