Now well get to business at hand this morning. If youre just waking up lets get you up to speed on the markets and whats going on in the futures. Looks like a little bit of a mixed morning. The dow might open slightly higher. Nasdaq would open marginally off and the s p well call it across the board. Well see how things play out this morning. Joe. It used to be mostly new york social sociallights wasnt it . Five years ago it became very strange that it became sort of a moment. Its almost like the white house correspondence dinner. Its for not nerds. For real celebrities. For actual celebrities. Very few cross overs for the two i would think. Probably a hand full. Maybe a hand full. Other big stories were watching today a packed earnings count are among the names set to post results today before the bell. Disney archer daniels, discovery, kellogg and bloomg brands and disney moving its release up to 8 00 eastern. So executives can attend a Memorial Service for survey monkey ceo who died
Well get more on all of it. An rue, apple reported report earnings. Strong iphone numbers,. Apple shipping nearly 40 million iphones and with a 16 year over year and better than analysts estimated the rt yeaher including only about a week or so or iphone 6 sales, but cook telling me demand so far for the new iphones has been, in his words, off the charts. Here is what cook told analysts on the call. Today, weve launched in 32 countries, including china, and our new iphones will be shipping in 69 countries and territories by the end of this month, making this our fastest and most successful iphone launch ever. Another high lie of the quarter, mac ships, the best in the history of mac. So what didnt work . Ipad clicking in at 12 million. That was a 13 drop. Consumers dont buy ipads as frequently as iphones and its increasing competition with smartphones from bigger screens. Looking ahead, coke is bullish on his companys prospect. I think this will be the best Holiday Season we have ever