Apple is a revolutionary company. Starting with the iPod and iTunes, Apple has continually turned industries on their heads reaping big profits along the way. Now setting their targets on the mobile payments industry, Apple is about to hit another grand slam.

Eurozone Sep industrial production rose +0.6% m/m, less than expectations of +0.7% m/m, although Aug was revised upward to -1.4% m/m from the originally reported -1.8% m/m.

A lot of Wall Street pundits have been advising their audience to short the QQQ. I wanted to see if there were any gems among the rocks so I used Barchart to sort the NASDAQ 100 Index stocks for the highest technical buy signals.

September E-mini S&Ps (ESU14 +0.31%) this morning are up +0.24% on optimism that this morning's ADP employment report will show solid gains in employment last month, while European stocks are little changed ahead of the results of today's ECB meeting.

Electronic payment transaction processing company VeriFone Systems (PAY) is set to report earnings for its third fiscal quarter of 2014 before the market opens on Thursday, September 4.

June E-mini S&Ps (ESM14 +0.08%) this morning are down -0.04% as prices consolidate gains following Wednesday's rally to a record high.