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APPLE and FACEBOOK Earnings Update Today Apple Inc. came with its Q2 earning. After a long time AAPL stock was up $40+ today in the after hour trading ! First thing first, Apple's sales did not fall rather it grew this quarter. That's good news! Apple is also splitting its stock 7 -for-1 on record date of June 2 and will be available to all shareholders on June 9, 2014 . In addition, it also approved another $30 billion in share buybacks till the end of 2015 (Total of $130 Billion) . Currently it has about $150 billion in CASH out of which about $18 Billion in US and remaining abroad. It sold almost 44 million iPhones. AAPL - Q2 Key Earning Highlights: ·         Sales: Revenue came in $45.64 billion that beat Wall Street expectations of $43.54 billion, increase of 4.6%. ·         Net Profit: Earnings per share (EPS) also beat handily at $11.62, above $10.18 estimated by Wall Street. · ...

INVESTMENT GROUP MEET The next  Investment Group Meet will take place on  SATURDAY, 4/26/14 from 2.30pm - 4pm  in FREMONT, CA  at the address and link provided below. If you are interested please make it convenient to attend by person. As usual it will be  interactive session and will discuss about the Stock Market. Agenda is given below: Current situation in US Equity Market What we can expect going forward within USA and Internationally Interactive Session  Questions & Answers Here is the  address   and link to venue:  Wellness By All Means 5500 Stewart Ave, Suite 200 Fremont CA 94538. http://wellnessbyallmeans.com/ index.php?option=com_contact& view=contact&id=3&Itemid=58

                        13 April 2014 APRIL 2014 Investment Blog Shesa Nayak    Market Commentary   Welcome to my APRIL investment blog. As usual, let’s take a quick glance to the current market phenomena and what we can expect going forward. Last few weeks have not been very exciting news for the investors. The market has pulled back significantly. The DOW Jones Industrial Average closed this Friday at 16026.75, S&P 500 closed at  1815.69 and NASDAQ closed at 3999.73. Meanwhile, S&P did hit all time high of 1890.90 on 2 nd April but after that things have not gone well. In last 2 days itself NASDAQ has corrected almost 5%. On 10 th April, The Labor Department said that the number of people applying for U.S. unemployment benefits dropped to 300,000, the lowest level in nearly seven years. But this good news was rather a bad new...