Apple stock drops premarket as AAPL faces jobs data, App Store appeal, earnings clock
New York, Jan 7, 2026, 09:25 EST — Premarket Apple Inc shares were down $5.04, or 1.9%, at $262.36 in premarket trading on Wednesday, after closing at $267.40 in the prior session. The slip comes with investors fixated on labor data and what it means for interest rates, after a tech-led rally in the previous session. “It’s not giving you a great look into what’s happening,” Kim Forrest, chief investment officer at Bokeh Capital Partners, said of the ADP report. Reuters Payrolls processor ADP reported U.S. private payrolls rose by 41,000 in December, below the 47,000 economists polled by Reuters