Apple Earnings Preview: What to Expect

Every earnings report from Apple is viewed as a market moving event, but even by that standard, today's report is huge.

For months, Apple's perception on Wall Street and Main Street has been tarnished by software blunders, supply constraint rumors, executive shakeups, increasing competition from Samsung and Google, and a growing concern that it might not have another breakthrough product in the pipeline

It has now been more than half a year since Apple held a major launch event for a new product — the iPad Mini in October. Speculation about the company's decline has come to fill that void. Read more...