Stripping out html from Editor using a featured cat for home page.

I’m using the code below to pull 2 most recent featured News post to a custom homepage. It’s all working but only on the home page does it strip out html tags (bold/italics). What am i missing.. The formatting is showing up fine on individual blog posts.

<?php
$args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 2, ‘offset’=> 0, ‘category’ => 7 );
$myposts = get_posts( $args );
foreach ( $myposts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
• <header class=”article-header”><h2>“><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
  <?php the_date(); ?></header>

  <section class=”entry-content clearfix” itemprop=”articleBody”><?php the_excerpt(); ?></section>

<?php endforeach;
wp_reset_postdata();?>