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Wall Street and Apple sitting in the tree.

The iPhone 5S is plenty big and trading nickel for a ten foil hat.

It's Tuesday, July 15, 2014. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from Macco-S-Can.

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Financial analysts are just wild about Apple heading into next week's third quarter fiscal

year 2014 earnings call and the second half of the year.

Barons had a note yesterday from Barclays capital analyst Ben Ritzus,

the message most quoted,

he's back on board.

Quoting his note,

we believe Tim Cook has solidified his strategy and regain the confidence

of Apple stakeholders in many ways, reversing many of the warning signs we saw earlier in the

year.

Second, Samsung's weakness creates a large unforeseen buffer.

Third, our checks around new products, builds, demands, and quality into 2015 are so strong we are compelled to get on board

even if it's midway through the rebound trade. Even the March and June upside

we have seen change the outcomes for iPhone's growth trajectory and

brand appeal. We can't help feeling the right analogy for a stock standpoint is to

compare Apple of 2014 to Google and acknowledge the market once and needs to own this bellwether

and the end of calendar year 2014 and the first half of 2015.

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