sonali: that is michael contopoulos and ira jersey. next, the option block. bank of america joins other major u.s. banks joining the issuance party with leveraged loans hitting a record. this is real yield on bloomberg. sonali: i am sonali basak can this is bloomberg real yield. the auction block. we take a trip around the credit world starting with europe. it only attracting a record 200 billion euros of orders for two new bonds capitalizing on last week's outlook upgrade by fitch. demand is the second highest ever for a dual sale in europe. in u.s. high-grade to slow with weekly sales missing forecast a second straight week. one highlight was a bank of america 73 $.5 billion of subordinated body. the major bank joined its peers which collectively sold more than $19 billion of bonds last week. in u.s. leveraged loans it's really fun this week. companies issued a record $986 billion, nearly a trillion dollars of debt this year passing the 2017 level as the busiest year for new issuance with most of the volume coming from companies refinancing current obligati

michael contopoulos. halloween is when the numbers come out. thank you so much.omas martin senior portfolio manager at global investments. let's talk about apple as it sits in the context of the magnificent seven. as we look towards next weekend we start to get a bumper crop of earnings are you feeling optimistic? thomas: we are. these are companies that are growing their earnings and revenues. they have had a little bit of a, i guess, not slow down, but, they have not been as strong as they were first half of the year. the fundamentals underlying them in terms of driving their revenues and earnings are still pretty strong. we are hopeful we can get good reports out of them. ed: interesting, thomas. if you will allow me i will do some scene setting. i think we agree to mag seven was at the big driver of the s&p 500 the first half of this year but it has kind of changed since july when that index peaked. if you take the basket of the magnificent seven, the five that will report next, i think that earnings growth expectations about 19%, sub 20%, way beyond the s&p