Thank you, that's what I thought.  All these "pronouncements" have been market movers lately...we'll see on this one...

Boehner is scheduled to speak...does anyone know the exact time?

Maybe reality is being allowed to kick in momentarily...

I'm expecting a report that we have moved to full employment this last week.  I think QE 3 just started to work!

What's the officer, problem?

But they only slightly beat on sales and guided lower for upcoming 1Q---The Hedge Funds are heading out for now, until they can start buying again at much lower prices...IMO

The Market just wants an orderly exit...because there will surely be selling tomorrow at the open---then probably a bounce because most of this report was already sold in the last month.  The Hedge funds want to be able to re-buy at wholesale prices... 

Back up yo VWAP for the conference call---Steve Cook better do some fast talking!

It will resume trading at 4:50 EST---sorry about the copy and paste--I didn't know

• APPLE 4Q EPS $8.67, EST. $8.75 - miss
• APPLE 4Q SALES $36.0B
• APPLE SOLD 14.0 MILLION IPADS DURING QTR, UNIT EST. 15.3M

But the uglyness is in the forecast. And this time it is not a low-ball:

• APPLE SEES 1Q EEPS $11.75, , EST. $15.49
• APPLE SEES 1Q REV. ABOUT $52B, EST. $55.07B

Stock halted so keep an eye on the QQQ as a proxy.

(just a guess) but it looks like 'big boys' are selling into fear today...who knows what will happen after the close---only one thing is certain: there will be a huge volatility crush by tomorrow morning...I went long puts at the open this morning and will be out by the end of day or sooner, becaus the institutions often bounce up to VWAP for the close).  I agree that if earnings disappoint, i.e. they aren't as fantastic as usual, that the 580 or so level is where it may end up.  Make sure the popcorn is non-GMO :-)

Hold...hold...hold...

I think we're going to have a small "binary" event at 10am Pacific time this morning when the mini iPad announcement is made.  Vol. is a little more pumped up on the weeklies with aapl--even slightly more than usual during an earnings week.

Earnings privacy was breached  :-)