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Microsoft stock is on a four-day winning streak after breaking out of a cup base at a pivot of 466.32 amid an earnings beat.

Asian equities climbed again Wednesday, tracking another record on Wall Street, as tech firms continued to enjoy a revival after a month-long rout, with confidence also boosted by the prospect of an imminent deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.Crude tumbled more than five percent Tuesday -- and are down more than 10 percent this week -- after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said a deal could be reached imminently with Tehran on re-opening the Strait of Hormuz to shipping traffic. 

On the latest episode of the AI Investor Podcast, 24/7 Wall St. Analyst Austin Smith opens with a puzzle: two companies are being treated in opposite ways for the same underlying behavior. Microsoft is up roughly 16% after Azure growth accelerated from 38% to 43%, with guidance pointing to 45–46%, vindicating a capex program the market had criticized. Meta, meanwhile, is down about 10% at roughly 20x earnings despite 28% top-line growth — and is being punished for the same infrastructure spending, even after Zuckerberg argued that Meta rents out compute at a markup over its cost. Co-host Eric Bleeker's answer is that both moves are likely overreactions, and that the real variable is what each company said versus what Wall Street wanted to hear. Microsoft delivered on message: Azure at a $124 billion run rate, 90% of cloud demand coming from outside the frontier labs, and no capex increase. He frames Microsoft's position as a prisoner's dilemma, since compute routed to Azure is compute unavailable for its own AI products, and argues Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella relented under pressure from prior quarters. He compares the market's discomfort with capex growth to Apple's mid-decade smartphone choppiness versus Google's steadier trajectory. Meta hit every wrong note: an EPS miss on one-time costs, decelerating guidance, Zuckerberg walking back the cloud-capacity revenue opportunity, and incremental compute directed toward Meta Superintelligence rather than the core ad business. Eric estimates the justified moves were only a few percent in either direction, with the rest attributable to PR and positioning. He credits Microsoft's software exposure as valuable diversification, but concludes the share-price gap doesn't reflect any real difference in business trajectory.

Arista Networks stock soared Tuesday after the network infrastructure company reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings. The results provided further evidence that demand for artificial-intelligence services is accelerating, with hardware suppliers like Arista among the main beneficiaries. Arista reported adjusted earnings of $1.02 a share for the second quarter, up from 73 cents last year and above analysts’ call for 89 cents, per FactSet.

Dow Jones AI giant Microsoft stock is breaking out past a buy point following last week's earnings-fueled surge that saw the stock rally 21%.

Short sellers piled into Microsoft and Amazon at historically stretched levels before earnings, and the beats that followed set off a covering scramble that has powered both stocks for weeks. Now the question is whether the rally has legs or whether the easiest gains are already gone.

Nvidia stock clears the 50-day moving average amid Big Tech earnings. Advanced Micro Devices is set to report Tuesday.

Free cash flow is negative while the cloud build runs, and that is the whole question for anyone weighing the stock today.

Next year, sales are expected to grow by 59% to $80 billion with earnings surging by more than 80% to $13.87.

Meta's ad business is on fire, but on its latest earnings call, analysts kept probing the large, open-ended bill for its AI future, and management’s answers revealed the real risk.

Big Tech stocks are soaring after the companies reported earnings last week, namely Microsoft (MSFT) and Amazon (AMZN). Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley takes a closer look.

Both Amazon and Microsoft crushed earnings and surged on identical catalysts, but the businesses underneath those matching gains point in very different directions for what comes next.

Blowout cloud earnings and a sudden geopolitical thaw sent the biggest AI names surging Monday, but the question investors are scrambling to answer is whether the rally signals a lasting regime change or just a relief bounce before the next round of capex anxiety.

Shares of hyperscaler companies climbed higher on Monday.

Tech stocks coverage for the week of Aug. 3.

Tech stocks coverage for the week of Aug. 3.

Tech stocks coverage for the week of Aug. 3.

Investing.com -- The software sector is catching a major tailwind today, fueled by a noticeable rotation out of semiconductor stocks and into high-growth enterprise tech. Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) strong pre-market rally—driven by a massive $90 billion Q4 print and 43% Azure growth—has ignited a broader bid across the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF.

AMD will report its Q2 earnings Tuesday.

Microsoft's earnings report was a big win for bulls.

Microsoft Q4 showed that its multibillion-dollar AI strategy is already paying off, and the best days may still be ahead.

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Profit growth is finally catching up with market dominance

Amazon delivered blockbuster results across the board.

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One market level could validate Microsoft's renewed momentum

Wall Street sees stronger returns behind massive infrastructure spending