Sara eisen, jon fortt at microsofts edu event in midtown, manhattan. First up this morning, apple is going to have earnings after the close tonight. Stock hits another record high, its cash hoard could swell to a quarter of a trillion dollars. Josh lipton joins us from apple hq in cupertino with all the details. Hey, josh. Well, carl, apple stock surged more than 60 from its low last may. So can tim cook keep those bulls in charge . After the close today, the street expects apple to report eps of 2. 02 on revenue of nearly 53 billion. They are expected to ship 52 million iphones in the quarter. Thats because many iphone fans could be delaying upgrades as they wait for that new iphone in the fall. He says the wild card this quarter, gross margins, apple could get stung by higher component prices, but could also benefit as is now withholding royalty payments to contract manufacturers in that ongoing brawl with qualcomm. Beyond the hardware, a lot of attention paid to Apple Services which
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