Reports its first decline in annual revenue and profit since 2001. The dow component said revenue fell for the third consecutive quarter, as iphone sales dropped from a year ago. But remember, despite the falloff in numbers, apple is still the most profitable american company. And it did issue a rosie outlook. For the latest quarter, apple earned 1. 67 a share, one cent better than estimates. Revenue fell 9 to more than 46 billion, just about in line with expectations. The stock popped, then dropped, in initial after hours trading. Josh lipton has more now on apples results. Reporter 45. 5 million, the big number in apples latest earnings reporting and first to iphone units in the companys fourth quarter. That was a drop of about 5 year over year, but it did beat analysts expectations of 44. 8 million. Question for investors is where this iphone franchise heads from here. Bears will say the best days are behind it. Like a lot of hardware you will see dropping average prices and margins
Reports its first decline in annual revenue and profit since 2001. The dow component said revenue fell for the third consecutive quarter, as iphone sales dropped from a year ago. But remember, despite the falloff in numbers, apple is still the most profitable american company. And it did issue a rosie outlook. For the latest quarter, apple earned 1. 67 a share, one cent better than estimates. Revenue fell 9 to more than 46 billion, just about in line with expectations. The stock popped, then dropped, in initial after hours trading. Josh lipton has more now on apples results. Reporter 45. 5 million, the big number in apples latest earnings reporting and first to iphone units in the companys fourth quarter. That was a drop of about 5 year over year, but it did beat analysts expectations of 44. 8 million. Question for investors is where this iphone franchise heads from here. Bears will say the best days are behind it. Like a lot of hardware you will see dropping average prices and margins
Technology sector rebounded. The blue chip dow index to 18,923. The nasdaq rose 57, and the s p 500 gained 16. Since the election, the best performing sector has been the financials. The rally in this group continue . Bob pisani takes a look. Reporter financials have been on fire since the election, but the rally is losing steam and with good reason. The Biggest Bank Stocks up almost 15 since the election. Morgan stanley, goldman sachs, all hit 52week highs. Its going to be tougher to get those gains from here. The s p Financial Sector trading almost 20 above its 200day moving average. That almost never happens. And its highly Unlikely Bank stocks will keep rising until we get more information on what the Trump Administration plans to do. So banks have been rising for three reasons. Regulatory reform. But its not clear how much of dodd frank will be dismantled and this would only benefit the biggest Money Center Banks for the most part. Second, banks have been going up on rising Intere
Technology sector rebounded. The blue chip dow index to 18,923. The nasdaq rose 57, and the s p 500 gained 16. Since the election, the best performing sector has been the financials. The rally in this group continue . Bob pisani takes a look. Reporter financials have been on fire since the election, but the rally is losing steam and with good reason. The Biggest Bank Stocks up almost 15 since the election. Morgan stanley, goldman sachs, all hit 52week highs. Its going to be tougher to get those gains from here. The s p Financial Sector trading almost 20 above its 200day moving average. That almost never happens. And its highly Unlikely Bank stocks will keep rising until we get more information on what the Trump Administration plans to do. So banks have been rising for three reasons. Regulatory reform. But its not clear how much of dodd frank will be dismantled and this would only benefit the biggest Money Center Banks for the most part. Second, banks have been going up on rising Intere
Is something that hasnt happened in about two years. For a while today, it looked like that monthly win streak was going to end at three. But by the close the blue chip index was off 86 points, down but enough still to be positive for the month. Nasdaq gained 14. The s p 500 fell 2. The big winner for the month of may was the nasdaq, up more than 3. 5 . And according to bob pisani, the action weve seen is indicative of a healthy market. Reporter sell in may and go away . Not really. It wasnt a spectacular month but it wasnt a washout either. What we did see was healthy rotation. For example, tech stocks were lag going into may, they had a rough april. But tech was a big advancing this month. The sector up more than 5 with doubledigit gains in big names like electronic arts, micron, salesforce. Com. Energy and material stocks performed opposite, gainers in april but both were down slightly in may. Heres the bottom line. The s p 500 eked out a respectable 1. 5 gain for the month and we a