A lot of viewers enjoying the Reggie Jackson photo bomb here with bob. Thank you very much. With all of that, lets get over to the judge and the half. Welcome to the Halftime Report. Im scott walker. The nasdaqs moment of truth. Over the next 48 hours, with two major events could very well determine where that record setting index goes from here. Key earnings from apple and facebook, will they be good enough to keep tech flying high . With us for the hour today, joe turnover, stephanie link, josh brown, john najarian. We begin with the nasdaq. Apple itself hitting an all time intraday high. How many of these two key earnings reports are going to dictate whether the nasdaq and tech can keep rolling . Huge. Very huge. Let me throw out a stat to you real quick. Last year at this time, apples straddle, thats the combination of the call and put, were trading for almost the same price its trading for now. Difference is last year we were going to it with a 104 price on apple. Now its a 147 or
A massive loss and that stork is do sto down almost a percent. Phil lebeau is gearing up for the tesla call which starts in 30 minutes and well check in with him a little bit later and we have David Garrity manning the red phone for the Conference Call. Well hear his instant reaction later. First, we cake it off with Julia Boorstin who just spoke with Sheryl Sandberg moments ago. I just got off the phone with Sheryl Sandberg and we spoke after the earnings crossed and she wanted to talk about what drove the costs to better than expected revenue and earnings. The brands are moving to facebook and mobile. Advertisers are moving dollars over to reach them. Heres what she said about growth outside of facebooks core app. Instagram is a growing part of our business. We have now 8 million business profiles on instagram that are Small Businesses and were seeing a lot of usage and we are casting ads and stories. Messenger is really in a much earlier stage and something that we are really focuse
Chief of Bloomberg Businessweek all about global technology. Why now do this . Megan technology has always been a franchise that Bloomberg Businessweek. It is something we have distinguished ourselves on. We pride ourselves on the covers, the stories we are able to tell. We really wanted to keep global tech as a franchise and even make it more global than it already was. What you see in this issue are two themes. One is here are some of the companies in developments and entrepreneurs that are changing the world, like tencent. And also, the future is closer than you think. Whether that is fish skin being used to treat wounds or the race for space, things we thought were Science Fiction almost are not so much. We wanted to bring that to readers. Oliver this has got to be one of the Coolest Stories you guys ever had in one magazine. We want to keep this sort of Business Economic thing open, but the stuff is so exciting. What to you is most exciting that maybe you had not heard about or go
Chief of Bloomberg Businessweek all about global technology. Why now do this . Megan technology has always been a franchise that Bloomberg Businessweek. It is something we have distinguished ourselves on. We pride ourselves on the covers, the stories we are able to tell. We really wanted to keep global tech as a franchise and even make it more global than it already was. What you see in this issue are two themes. One is here are some of the companies in developments and entrepreneurs that are changing the world, like tencent. And also, the future is closer than you think. Whether that is fish skin being used to treat wounds or the race for space, things we thought were Science Fiction almost are not so much. We wanted to bring that to readers. Oliver this has got to be one of the Coolest Stories you guys ever had in one magazine. We want to keep this sort of Business Economic thing open, but the stuff is so exciting. What to you is most exciting that maybe you had not heard about or go
Chief of Bloomberg Businessweek all about global technology. Why now do this . Megan technology has always been a franchise that Bloomberg Businessweek. It is something we have distinguished ourselves on. We pride ourselves on the covers, the stories we are able to tell. We really wanted to keep global tech as a franchise and even make it more global than it already was. What you see in this issue are two themes. One is here are some of the companies in developments and entrepreneurs that are changing the world, like tencent. And also, the future is closer than you think. Whether that is fish skin being used to treat wounds or the race for space, things we thought were Science Fiction almost are not so much. We wanted to bring that to readers. Oliver this has got to be one of the Coolest Stories you guys ever had in one magazine. We want to keep this sort of Business Economic thing open, but the stuff is so exciting. What to you is most exciting that maybe you had not heard about or go