Wall Street, analysts, and all those investors with Apple inside their 401(k)s are assuming the worst come Tuesday evening, and right when they would love to see signs of hope. It's best you get ready now.
Someone had to pay the price for that debacle. And that someone was J.P. Morgan's CEO, who saw his annual bonus slashed to a measly $10 million, a 53.5-percent pay cut from the year before.
This afternoon at 4 p.m. Facebook will report its first earnings report since it went public in May, giving us all sorts of information, like financials goodies and user stats, that it's never had to divulge before.
Following last quarter's blockbuster numbers — 35.1 million iPhones sold and $39.2 billion in revenue — Apple's financial report for this quarter looked rather meek: 26 million iPhone and $35 billion.
If you were longing to see the day when The New York Times was going to stop hurting and start making enough gains in subscribers to offset its ad losses, so that you could tell your media pundit friends that newspapers aren't dead, you may want to clear your calendar in 2014.
The Internet, in an attempt to both say something different about the talked-to-death Apple earnings report and the $110 billion of cash it has on hand and also give readers a visual representation of the massively abstract, resorted many, many comparisons. It's time to judge their efforts.
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