It didn’t go anywhere, because it was never real. Market cap is not the same as cash. The fact that Apple stock multiplied by its price is trillion, doesn’t mean you can sell trillion worth of apple stock and get trillion dollars in exchange. At that point price starts to respond to your transaction
It didn’t go anywhere, because it was never real. Market cap is not the same as cash. The fact that Apple stock multiplied by its price is trillion, doesn’t mean you can sell trillion worth of apple stock and get trillion dollars in exchange. At that point price starts to respond to your transaction
btw cash is no more real than company shares. both are paper and numbers in a database.