Markets: Battle Breaks out as Apple nears $500...

Today as Apple stock opened on the New York Stock Exchange, it approached $500 and a flurry of buying came in....it was a battle between the bulls and bears, or if not bears, just folks selling to get their capital gains into the 2012 tax year. One pundit on Wall Street was saying that it was hard to even get a cab ride where every cabbie on earth was not talking about Apple...it was the buzz topic....