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The U.S. stock market (SEC) opened an investigation into the Apple group, following the announcement of a long sick leave from his executive Steve Jobs, days after the dissemination of information reassurances about their health, according to the Wall Street Journal.


The electronic edition of the financial daily quoted "a person familiar with the case to assert that the investigation is focused on the communication strategy on Apple's Jobs' health.


The share price had increased at the beginning of the month when the group issued an email saying that his notorious Jobs thinness was a simple "hormonal imbalance" that required medical treatment "simple." But action had plunged last week after Jobs admitted that his health problems were "more complex" by what he believed and that it should take a medical leave until late June.


Jobs underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in 2004. Rumors about his health since he appeared increasingly thin in June to introduce the latest version of the signature vestrella phone, the iPhone. Since then, resigned earlier this month to participate in the lounge MacWorld San Francisco (California, west), devoted to products compatible with the company of the apple.


The title Apple rose 2.34%, to $ 80.03, a half day on Wednesday, far from the $ 94.58 reached on January 5 after the first information on the health of reassuring Jobs.