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Shares of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) are up 9% in early Thursday trading, changing hands at $427 after the software giant delivered a fiscal fourth-quarter blowout and crossed a symbolic Azure milestone. The pop lifts the stock off Wednesday’s $390.54 close and pushes it back toward levels last seen in the spring. As of yesterday’s close, Microsoft ... Microsoft Surges 9% as Azure Tops $100B and Q4 Beat Lifts Most Price Targets

Microsoft surged on Thursday following a blowout quarter.

July 30 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures steadied on Thursday after a sharp selloff driven by uncertainty around the Federal Reserve's policy outlook, while Microsoft's forecast-beating results

Berkshire Hathaway Inc (NYSE:BRK.A) shares are trading at an 8% discount to intrinsic value, UBS said, raising its price target on the conglomerate ahead of its second-quarter earnings release. UBS lifted its target to $877,848 for Class A shares from $854,596, and to $585 for Class B shares....

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Amazon reported its Q2 earnings after the bell on Thursday.

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Microsoft reported its Q4 earnings on Wednesday.

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Tech stocks rose on Monday morning amid tentative optimism ahead of a flood of Big Tech earnings this week.

Earnings season kicks into high gear this week.

Earnings season kicks into high gear this week.

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Investing.com -- Uber Technologies (NYSE: UBER) shares skidded 4% on Friday, with losses accelerating in the final hour of trading following a revealing Financial Times report that Alphabet’s Waymo is eyeing the exit ramp on their alliance. According to the report, the self-driving car company is holding internal discussions about terminating its current agreements with the ride-hailing giant, which presently include joint operations in Austin and Atlanta. The Breakdown Uber has confirmed the fr

Intel's stock is surging while the rest of the chip sector sits flat, and the reasons behind that split tell a much bigger story about where the semiconductor race is actually headed.

Alphabet's revenue increased by 24% to $119.8bn, marking the 12th consecutive quarter of double-digit growth.

Nvidia stock slides below an early entry at 213.99 on Thursday. The move comes after Alphabet's earnings report late Wednesday.

Celestica is reporting Q2 earnings on July 27, and the setup heading into that print raises a question most investors have not asked yet: what happens when a pick-and-shovel AI play trades at a discount to its own growth rate with 20 of 21 analysts already bullish?

The Google parent’s results have provided fuel for a rally in chip stocks, but Nvidia has been left behind.

Alphabet's first cash burn on record has jolted investors awaiting more Big Tech results next week as soaring AI spending strains one of the world's most profitable companies, and the pain is only expected to increase. The Google ‌parent burned $5.9 billion in the second quarter, even as the cloud unit that rents out AI computing power notched a record 82% growth. With Alphabet ‌now expected to spend $15 billion more in 2026 and predicting another increase next year, the outlays behind the cash burn will only rise.

IBM has agreed to buy HRL Laboratories, a private quantum computing research lab jointly owned by Boeing Co and General Motors, the ‌company said on Thursday, adding a second pillar to IBM's quantum computing efforts. IBM has been racing ‌against Alphabet's Google, Microsoft and others to create practical quantum machines that can crack problems that would take conventional computers thousands ​of years to solve. In May, U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said it would award $1 billion to IBM to set up a new company called Anderon in New Albany, New York, to serve as a chip factory for U.S. quantum computing firms.

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) shares fell almost 3% after hours, wiping almost $125 billion from its valuation, despite second-quarter results that beat Wall Street forecasts on both revenue and earnings. The Google parent reported revenue of $119.8 billion and earnings per share of $9.11,...

S&P 500 member United Rentals soared on stronger-than-forecast Q2 results after Wednesday's close as Google got a late-day haircut. AI data center construction has helped supercharge earnings for URI, which provides a one-stop shop for large construction projects. Google's plan to keep boosting capital spending suggests the demand environment for heavy machinery will keep shining, even as it may slow the pay-off for AI hyperscalers.

Google's cloud business grew by more than 80 percent, the company said on Wednesday, which exceeded investor expectations who are looking for signs that the company's AI investments are paying off. "Our AI investments are redefining what’s possible across every part of our business," Pichai said.

Alphabet topped Wall Street estimates for quarterly cloud revenue growth on Wednesday, as the Google parent benefited from strong demand for its cloud computing services from ‌enterprises worldwide thanks to the AI boom. Revenue at Google Cloud rose 82% to $24.8 billion ‌during the quarter ended June, accelerating from the 63% jump reported in the preceding three months. The third-largest cloud services provider behind Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, Google has seen demand surge as companies race to secure the cloud capacity needed to develop, train and run AI models, helping it land ‌major deals with firms, including Anthropic.

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U.S. futures declined amid rising oil prices as the conflict in the Middle East intensifies ahead of the peak earnings season.

Alphabet and Apple both crushed their last quarters, but they are running completely opposite playbooks heading into earnings season. One is burning through cash to own the AI future while the other hands it back to shareholders, and only one setup looks sharp right now.

Micron stock and SK Hynix were rising ahead of Big Tech earnings but there is a risk that big customers will look to sidestep soaring memory costs.

The rebound comes after weeks of intense selling, partly due to concerns that hyperscalers would continue investing the massive sums in AI development they had committed at the start of the year.