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a lot of viewers enjoying the reggie jackson photo bomb here with bob. thank you very much. with all of that, let s get over to the judge and the half. welcome to the halftime report. i m scott walker. the nasdaq s 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, apple s straddle, that s the combination of the call and put, were trading for almost the same price it s trading for now. difference is last year we were going to it with a 104 p ....
new highs. it is feeling more positive than yesterday, but still sort of flirting with records here. as we talk about what is going on geopolitical he with the french collection, earnings still remain a strong background backdrop for stocks in the united states. we have the earnings that have been so far as of yesterday. we have not incorporated today s numbers yet. we are nearing 15% earnings growth. this is the double-digit earnings growth that was estimated by some, and we are pulling out of the single-digit earnings growth from a couple of quarters. it is definitely making a different. pharmaceuticals are climbing for a change. the valiant is taking progress progressiant is making with its assets. we also have and go health healthns, endo solutions which is coming out with some earnings. the updraft is not helping other pharmaceuticals so much. we do not necessarily have earnings, but we do have some earnings related numbers from airlines this morning. american ....
anthony weiner, somehow her e-mails are forwarded to anthony weiner included by her assistant huma abedin. information.hich classified charles: that statement, as we know was incorrect. and meanwhile, the white house as of russia s top diplomate meets with trump. all of this in a possible distraction to health care, and we re going to have rand paul join us in a moment. varney & company is about to begin. i simply said to him, mr. president, all due respect, you re making a very big mistake. and he didn t really answer. and i have said from the get-go that i think a special prosecutor is the way to go, but now, with what s happened, it s the only way to go. well, that was senator chuck schumer calling for a special prosecutor to investigate ties between trump s campaign and russia. this happening after the president fired fbi director james comey and president trump then tweeted this. crying chuck schumer stated recently i didn t have confidence in them aring re ....
it. the latest count is up 45,000 attacks in 74 countries the computer systems have been hit. one of the largest telecommunication firms driven off-line. users with any device could be vulnerable to these attacks. in england like you mentioned 36 hospitals and doctors offices force in the cyber lifetime. here is a screenshot of what they sought. your files have been encrypted many of your documents are no longer accessible because they had been encrypted maybe you were looking for a way to recover your files but do not waste your time and we we can recover your files without the disc decryption service. they are warning people to stay away from the hospital unless it s an absolute emergency. no computers means no records and no prescriptions. important operations like heart surgeries port postponed because of the hack. they don t get paid they threatened to destroy all hospital data. the intel at the british intelligence service said he s not surprised by this attack. ....
it. the latest count is up 45,000 attacks in 74 countries the computer systems have been hit. one of the largest telecommunication firms driven off-line. users with any device could be vulnerable to these attacks. in england like you mentioned 36 hospitals and doctors offices force in the cyber lifetime. here is a screenshot of what they sought. your files have been encrypted many of your documents are no longer accessible because they had been encrypted maybe you were looking for a way to recover your files but do not waste your time and we we can recover your files without the disc decryption service. they are warning people to stay away from the hospital unless it s an absolute emergency. no computers means no records and no prescriptions. important operations like heart surgeries port postponed because of the hack. they don t get paid they threatened to destroy all hospital data. the intel at the british intelligence service said he s not surprised by this attack. ....