Onthis is Market Makers bloomberg television. I am Erik Schatzker here with every role. Apple investors have not had a day like this in two years. The stock is up 7. 3 on the back of surprisingly strong iphone sales plus an increase in apples buyback and a big stock split. Editor Bloomberg News tom giles in our San Francisco bureau this morning. Tom, if we had to distinguish results foriphone sure and some of the other metrics in apples Earnings Report and the buyback and the stock split, which seems the most important from an investors perspective this morning . Balance, the market is telling us loud and clear they like what they heard from apple. They like the iphone news, they like being news about the buyback, the dividend, the stock split, all things we have not heard a lot from apple recently, as much as investors would have liked. Callsok has been facing from carl icahn and other investors, returned that catch, you were at 150 billion of that is more than enough, tim, get some o
Economic data in the u. S. Mba Mortgage Applications data. We also have the Monthly Budget statement that comes out at 2 00 p. M. Earnings, john deere. I had a tractor. I sold in six years ago when i sold my place in connecticut. I had a push mower. Miniature john deere tractor in our house that i stepped on it all the time. You think it is in bony and do the ice in your backyard. They make one with that thing on nie back will stop zambo and you can do the ice in your backyard. They make one that has a thing on the back. Cvs, whole foods and are you ready for this deco the 2016 election is 1000 days from today. There are 999 republican candidates. We dont know who they are. I read an article the other day, there are just a few republican candidates for 2016. Secretary clinton, way out front and the democrat sweepstakes. Check. A lets do the data check. Thank you, janet yellen. You can see it with the vix driving. What a remarkable recovery after days orence of gloom 10 so ago. The yen
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Still smarting over scott rebuffing my valentines proposal but i know his wife so i know why. I know why. We have a story about which stocks and wall street ratings are working and which arent. Love never means having to say im downgrading. We will name some names first to sue. Happy valentines day. Thank you. To you too, ty, and to everybody out there. This has been a terrible winter. We all know that. But now its really started to show up more and more in the economic models as economists are really tracking the impact and taking it more seriously. A survey by the philly fed cutting its q1 growth impact from 2. 5 to 2 . It believes q2 growth will pick up to 3 . It also believes that hiring will slow down so were watching that very carefully. Meantime, shares of orbitz taking off. Today shares are trading down just a fraction, you could actually almost call that unchanged. Is the terrible weather hurting the travel industry or in some cases, helping it . More with jane wells reporting
To policies related to something that we call remnants and warrants. Host in english . Guest when a lender originates today a home file can be to 1500 pages500 long. The likelihood of clerical error is very high. Givehis goal was to greater certainty to the Lending Community across the country, community banks, Credit Unions, to have the confidence to lend without fear of having to buy back a loan if they get a minor mistake in a file. It was this idea of defining what constitutes an error. Expandedolled out an program to allow borrowers with a lower down payment of 3 to valueloan at 97 loan to on a 30year fixed rate loan to fannie mae or freddie mac. That should help expand opportunities for firsttime homebuyers and minorities in this country which tend to have lower down payment available for purchasing a home. Host most of the articles of what he had to say had similar headlines to this. U. S. Loosens the reins, makes it easier to get a mortgage. Is that a fair interpretation . Gues