Microsoft has been one of the worst-performing large-cap tech stocks of 2026, down about 20% year to date, even as the company keeps expanding its AI business and growing Azure at a pace most cloud companies would envy. A lot of investors have been sitting on their hands, waiting either for a ...
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The newly created strategic relationship with Microsoft to deploy Expanded Beam Optical technology in AI data centers has lifted 3M's stock price. How should investors play this?
MEDIA & MARKETING Photo: George Downs/WSJ Struggling to keep up in the console market, Microsoft’s Xbox bet on a subscription service called Game Pass. The company spent more than $80 billion to acquire game studios—and bring major franchises like “Call of Duty” and “Fallout” onto the platform.
Microsoft has not been an easy stock to own in 2026. It's down more than 20% year to date and nearly 23% over the past year, a run that's frustrated a lot of investors who expected the company's AI push to show up in the share price by now. The spending has been enormous, Azure has kept growing, ...
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Exposure to the artificial-intelligence boom has become virtually impossible for investors to avoid. The theme hasn’t just cornered the stock market. It has systematically swallowed up corporate credit and venture capital, too.
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Despite rising debt levels, Oracle’s large backlog, lower valuation compared to peers, and a sector-wide increase amid lower inflation have boosted investor sentiment.
Citi and Mizuho just cut their Microsoft price targets before fiscal Q4 earnings, yet both firms kept their bullish ratings intact. The reason behind that split signal could reshape how investors think about the AI spending wave ahead of July 29.
3M's hot new optical technology for data centers is being deployed by Microsoft Azure, the companies announced on Wednesday. MMM stock is a top performer on the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday, flashing an early buy signal. 3M said on its April 21 earnings call that its new expanded beam optics technology had received validation and a significant order from a hyperscaler, which has apparently now been revealed to be Microsoft.
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It turns out that Palantir (PLTR) CEO Alex Karp’s thunderous warning about the AI industry wasn’t a one-off rant. Over the past couple of years, the word "AI" has become like a broken record, heard at least once almost every day, often followed by a wave of anxiety. What has happened amid all the ...
Meta stock is back in rally mode, for now.
OpenAI is in an IPO pickle. A year ago, the idea of an OpenAI listing would have had Wall Street salivating, with relatively few reservations about its large financial losses or questions about its leadership. After surviving an attempted ouster two years prior, chief Sam Altman had carved OpenAI into his nascent industry’s undisputed king and hitched himself closely to the much wealthier Microsoft to bankroll growth.

IBM stock collapses 25% after the company preannounced its Q2 earnings results.