Fast Money starts right now live from the

Aztec market site overlooking New York's Times Square.

I am Carl Kingtonia Inform, Melissa Lee.

Our traders on the desk, Tim Seymour, Brian Kelly, Karen Feinerman, and Guy Adami.

We're going to start with the big after-hour story of course. Kelly, Karen Finerman, and Guy Adami.

We're going to start with the big after our story, of course.

It's Apple, surging after beating on the top of the bottom line.

The conference call kicking off right now.

Take a look at the stock up almost 5.5%.

Full of team coverage. Josh Lipton in Cupertino outside of

Apple HQ. Gene Munster monitoring the call on his red iPhone. Let's kick it off with Josh.

You just spoke to Tim Cook. Josh.

So, Carl Carl I did have the chance to catch up with Apple CEO Tim Cook and one question

Carl right off the back was clearly what are the trends he's seeing in China?

Greater China revenue

call 10.22 billion. Now that was down 22% but I asked Cook what are the

trends he's seeing there? Is he seeing signs of improvement and cook telling

see NBC he is saying March was better than the average for the

quarter. We adjusted price as we got into the quarter. We adjusted it to

take back the weakness in the currency.

Next we rolled out our trade-in program

that had gotten some success in the United States.

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