Tom Lauricella, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Apple Crunched in Nasdaq Rebalance

April 4, 2011 at 10:45 pm PT

Nasdaq is taking a bite out of Apple.

In a move likely to ripple across the stock market, Nasdaq OMX plans to announce Tuesday a rare rebalancing of its Nasdaq-100 index, which will reduce the big weighting of Apple Inc. The company currently makes up more than 20 percent of the index.

The rebalancing was driven in part by the seemingly unstoppable rise in Apple shares, which are up more than fourfold in the past two years. The tech company’s big weighting means that a change in fortune for the maker of iPhones, iPods and iPads has a huge impact on one of the most heavily traded indexes in the market. After the rebalancing, which takes effect May 2, Apple will make up 12 percent of the Nasdaq-100.

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