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It's Wednesday, July 31st. Welcome to Market Forward.

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today, Greg Bechtel, and Elise, my comery. Thanks for being here.

Yeah, thanks for having us.

We've got entertainment, we've got online education, we've got a couple of stocks on our radar,

and we're going to start with the world's biggest fruit company

shares of Apple up 4% today third quarter profits and revenue came in higher than expected

Greg obviously there's always a lot to consider when you're looking at

Apple's business. You tell me what stood out in Apple's quarter?

Yeah, I think that this quarter was definitely critical for the company to rebound after this last year and

last two quarters of iPhone revenue dropping a little bit.

And although iPhone revenue continued to drop 12 12% from last year I think that overall

their earnings was pretty promising for the future, they're definitely

showing us that they're much more than just an iPhone company.

Their services and wearables reached all-time highs this quarter in revenue, and their

wearables I think are the key point to look out they raised to 5.5 billion

which is up 50% from last year.

That's amazing.

Yeah.

Well particularly when you consider wearables as a division started out.

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