New York, April 24, 2014 -- Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") assigned a P-1 short term rating to Apple Inc. ("Apple"), and affirmed the Aa1 senior unsecured debt rating. Moody's expects Apple to issue up to $10 billion of commercial paper, which the company will use to manage its short term cash needs. Moody's notes that Apple will not have a bank backstop liquidity facility in place, and will rely instead on its very high cash and investments balances, including U.S. cash, to meet commercial paper maturities if needed. The lack of a committed backstop liquidity facility is very unusual among U.S. non-financial corporate issuers, despite Apple's uncommonly large cash holdings. The rating outlook remains stable.

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