Apple shares soar past $100

Following better than expected quarterly earnings, shares of Apple soared above $100 to hit a new all-time high. As reported late yesterday, Apple saw second quarter earnings come in at $770 million, or 87 cents a share, compared to earnings of $410 million, or 47 cents a share, last year. Analysts were expecting, on average, earnings of 64 cents a share on revenue of $5.17 billion for the quarter. During the quarter, Apple shipped more than 10.5 million iPods and more than 1.5 million Mac computers.