Say. [laughter] charles i knew i loved you for a reason. Liz charles, thank you very much. Breaking news as we kick off the a final hour of trade. Take a look at apple ahead of one of the most anticipated earnings reports of the season. Apple shares right now up 2 , very close to session highs right now. After the bell the tech giant opens its quarterly books to investors who, you guys know this, are very anxious to see the company reveal profits and sales. Now, Analysts Expect to see the biggest revenue decline in more than a year, but shareholders will likely cast the most scrutiny on iphone sales which do account for about half of the tech giants revenue. Thats where things could get ugly. China iphone sales have slumped s and globally iphone users have been holding their purchasing fire on a new device until apple incorporates a. I. Into its handsets. Sales could plummet by as much as 10. 4 although, let me just say this caveat, apple sometimes underpromises and overdelivers. Smart
Thank you. Its been weeks. Nice to be back. Hi, mom. Here we are again. And happy birthday. Yes. Retail earnings, that helped send the stocks to record levels yet again today. Well talk about how much the market is up since i was gone, but whether this is provision called the border adjustment tax, could that stall the rally, especially as it pertains to Retail Stocks like the ones were seeing rallying today . Well talk about that coming up. White House Press Secretary sean spicer was just asked about that tax plan. Well bring you his comments shortly. Warm weather in the east made for a nice weekend. Its crushing nat gas. Its down 9 . I cant believe youre playing this song. Are you sure wells fargo, that saga it turns out is far from over. The bank just announcing a little while ago that four senior managers are out in the wake of the companys unauthorized account scandal. We have details on that still to come this hour. But how about these markets. The dow is over 20,700 and home dep