Apple earnings top expectations as iPhone demand surges in China: live blog recap

• • 3:39 pm (EDT)
  • Jeremy C. Owens

  Welcome to the Apple earnings live blog! We usually don't see Apple results until about 30 minutes after the market closes, so plenty of time to go over projections. Here is what to expect this afternoon.

Live Blog recap: Google discusses huge earnings beat, $5 billion buyback

• • 4:00 pm (EDT)
  • Jeremy C. Owens

  This ought to be an interesting report: Google's move to become Alphabet should give us some more insight into the performance of different aspects of the company, especially the so-called moonshots. I'd like to hear more about YouTube, especially after yesterday's announcement of a new, ad-free subscription service, but that has stayed part of Google and could still be obscured for now.

ECB live blog recap: Mario Draghi hints more stimulus to come

• • 8:14 am (EDT)
  • A question of when, not if?
  • William Watts

  ECB policy makers met in sunny Malta -- the central bank twice a year decamps from Frankfurt to hold a policy meeting elsewhere in the eurozone. So far, though, there have been no surprises under the Mediterranean sun, with the ECB opting to leave rates unchanged.

  That puts the focus on Mario Draghi, who is expected to again demonstrate that the ECB is ready to expand or extend its stimulus program if needed--but just not yet. 

  As MarketWatch's Sara Sjolin notes, investors are now speculating about when the central bank will take additional steps, not if. So far, the betting seems to be on December.

Netflix earnings, forecast lead to stock drop: Recap

• • 3:58 pm (EDT)
  • Jeremy C. Owens

  Greetings! We're waiting for the results to drop. In the meantime, here's what we expect to hear from Netflix today and a look ahead to the big original productions coming soon to the company's streaming service.