The franchise kicked off with an award, "The Blue Chip Book Club Award" given to James Stewart, author of "Den of Thieves." He's the first recipient of an exclusive group of the world’s most prominent business authors.
Apple stock skeptics, and even the company itself, can no longer get away with its “typically conservative” outlook given sales projections in China, Peter Misek, equity research analyst at Jefferies, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
Stocks pared their early gains to finish mixed Friday, but the Dow and S&P still ended higher for the week, propelled by some robust earnings and encouraging news from the euro zone.