Chart of the day: Apple’s 69-minute, $5.5 billion drop

This is what it looks like when Apple goes ex-dividend.

FORTUNE -- Apple (AAPL) opened Thursday at $464.02. An hour and nine minutes later, it hit $457.95, having shed more than $5.5 billion in market value.

What happened?

One never knows on Wall Street, but the most likely explanation is that traders who bought Apple for its $3.05-per-share dividend...

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