Microsoft share price soared 3% after-hours on Wednesday after the company’s fourth-quarter earnings soared past expectations owing to strong cloud revenues.In a statement released on Wednesday, the company announced a 43% increase in Azure cloud-computing revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter, out…
Microsoft share price soared 3% after-hours on Wednesday after the company’s fourth-quarter earnings soared past expectations owing to strong cloud revenues.In a statement released on Wednesday, the company announced a 43% increase in Azure cloud-computing revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter, out…
Amazon NASDAQ:AMZN, a major technology company operating cloud-computing and online-retail businesses, fell approximately 1.1% in Wednesday's regular-session trading as investors assessed weakening demand for hyperscaler debt. Amazon, Alphabet, Meta Platforms and Oracle issued approximately $194 bi…
Microsoft NASDAQ:MSFT heads into fiscal fourth-quarter earnings with Scotiabank cutting its price target to $470 from $550, a striking reset that keeps a bullish rating intact while warning that stronger Azure growth may not offset mounting concern over the cost of Microsoft's AI buildout.Wall Stre…
Microsoft (MSFT, Financials), the software and cloud computing company, faces an unusually high-stakes earnings report as options traders price in a market value swing of about $190 billion.The company's options imply a move of roughly 6.6% in either direction after fiscal fourth-quarter results. T…
Microsoft rose 1% in early premarket trading on Wednesday, ahead of its quarterly report after the markets close.Once one of the key stocks rising in the AI wave, Microsoft has lost its crown as investors’ focus has turned to its heavy spending and increasing competition from AI and cloud rivals.Mi…
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is set to report its quarterly earnings after the closing bell on Wednesday. But a day before the earnings, Deepwater Asset Management’s Gene Munster said investors should look beyond the results, adding that the software giant faces longer-term challenges from artificial int…
Severe capital expenditure plans by tech industry hyperscalers like Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL,GOOG) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will ultimately produce substantial financial rewards despite recent market hesitation, according to a research report from Morgan Stanley.Led by analyst…
Credit risk across several of the world's largest AI companies has climbed to record levels as investors grow more concerned about the debt needed to fund data centres, chips and advanced models.Credit default swap spreads tied to Alphabet NASDAQ:GOOGL, Amazon NASDAQ:AMZN, Meta NASDAQ:META, Nvidia…
Wall Street Rebounds Ahead of FOMC & Big Tech EarningsToday’s Market Update:Tuesday, the wild summer volatility continued on Wall Street. However, unlike recent sessions, the bulls showed some fight and rallied stocks off the bloody red morning lows. A few positives helped to buoy equities today, i…
Mega-cap tech giants have driven most of the market's gains over the past few years thanks to the AI boom. As a result, they now occupy an outsized share of most investors' portfolios, making many portfolios heavily dependent on the AI trade.While that concentration is not entirely unreasonable, si…
Microsoft (MSFT, Financials), the software and cloud computing company, introduced its first artificial intelligence model built specifically to find security flaws in source code.The model, called MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, will work with OpenAI's GPT-5.4 inside Project Perception, a group of AI agents de…
Microsoft (MSFT, Financials), the software and cloud computing company, introduced its first artificial intelligence model built specifically to find security flaws in source code.The model, called MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, will work with OpenAI's GPT-5.4 inside Project Perception, a group of AI agents de…
Technology giant Microsoft NASDAQ:MSFT will be reporting earnings this Wednesday after market close. Here’s what investors should know.Microsoft beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $82.89 billion, up 18.3% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, wi…
The Nasdaq index ended Monday lower, and the S&P 500 gave up most gains amid weakness in chipmaker stocks after reports suggested China had developed chipmaking machines that could threaten U.S. AI dominance.The S&P 500 ended flat, while the Nasdaq 100 slipped 0.3% and the Dow Jones Industrial Aver…
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) announced the release of MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first specialized cybersecurity artificial intelligence model designed to help organizations secure complex codebases against rapidly evolving AI-driven threat vectors.MSFT stock gained nearly 3% in Monday afternoon trading.AI M…
US stock futures climbed early Monday as investors headed into one of the heaviest weeks of the quarter, with Dow Jones and S&P 500 futures each up 0.80% and Nasdaq-100 futures gaining 1.40%. Sentiment appeared to draw support from geopolitics, as the US and Iran paused fighting in a development th…
Microsoft NASDAQ:MSFT is scheduled to report fiscal fourth-quarter results after Wednesday's market close, with investors expected to focus on whether continued demand for artificial intelligence services and Azure cloud computing supports the company's heavy infrastructure investments.Microsoft gu…
Nvidia NASDAQ:NVDA is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI, covering the lease and debt on a 10-gigawatt site SoftBank's energy arm is developing in southern Ohio. The total project is expected to exceed $500 billion, including chips. Those are being negotiate…
Nvidia (NVDA) on Monday unveiled the Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA), a coalition of nearly 40 technology companies that will jointly develop open-source tools designed to help organizations defend against AI-powered cyberattacks.The announcement comes just days after CEO Jensen Huang used his first…
