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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.

Canada's Shopify projected current-quarter revenue growth above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling the company's AI efforts were drawing more merchants ‌to its suite of e-commerce services, sending its U.S.-listed shares up 26% ‌premarket. The company's solid outlook and a second-quarter revenue beat are set to quell investor concerns about growing ​competition from new AI tools targeting small businesses that have dented Shopify's shares. If premarket gains hold, Shopify shares are set to recoup all losses this year.

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%.

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

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.

Suze Orman walked through a real SpaceX IPO trade that turned $10,000 into roughly $5,600 in seven weeks, and her lesson has nothing to do with rockets or Elon Musk.

Accelerating demand reported by major cloud providers improved sentiment toward infrastructure companies across the AI investment cycle.

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.

Amazon shares jumped 5% this morning, propelling the company to a $3.08 trillion market valuation. The gain comes on the heels of a 15% jump on Friday, when Amazon stock had its best day in years after investors liked what they saw in its latest report card.

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Steelmaker ArcelorMittal said ‌on Monday it ‌was expanding its collaboration ​with Microsoft as part of its "Cloud First, Data ‌Centric" ⁠strategy, which uses Azure as ⁠its primary cloud computing platform. The ​company said ​it ​would integrate ‌Microsoft Fabric, Purview and Foundry to modernize its IT systems, improve cybersecurity ‌and reduce ​its ​reliance ​on legacy ‌technology. Financial terms ​of ​the deal were not disclosed.

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

Like SpaceX, five of the seven Magnificent Seven stocks sank below their IPO price during the first year after their IPO.

Amazon stock is racing toward its best trading day in more than a decade following its Q2 results. A strong performance from its cloud-computing division is helping ease fears that the tech giant could lose ground to rival offerings from Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet. "Amazon Web Services finally saw the long-awaited growth inflection, shooting to the top of the cloud wars as AI quarter-to-quarter revenue mimics Anthropic's meteoric rise," Bernstein analyst Mark Shmulik wrote to clients Friday following Amazon's report.

$450 billion That's the amount of market capitalization gained by Microsoft yesterday, the largest one-day gain in market value by any U.S. business, ever. The tech giant's stock surged 16% after its earnings quelled concerns that investments on data centers, chips and more would outpace the company’s ability to generate cash.

Sony on Friday hiked its full-year operating profit forecast by 8% to 1.72 trillion yen ($10.72 billion), ‌citing the strength of its gaming business. The Japanese conglomerate has received ‌plaudits for its pivot to entertainment, but the market is concerned about the impact of ​AI and a memory chip price boom on its business. In the April-June quarter, ‌group operating profit rose 40% ⁠to 476.5 billion yen, beating analyst estimates, due to the strength of the gaming and image sensors businesses.

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) shares jumped Thursday after the company delivered stronger-than-expected second-quarter earnings, with investors and analysts praising accelerating Amazon Web Services profitability as evidence that returns on artificial intelligence investments are beginning to materialize. Cramer Calls Amazon ‘Astonishing’ After AWS Delivers CNBC host Jim Cramer called the results “astonishing,” in a post on X, though he said Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) remains the standout am

South Korean stocks jumped 17%, leading the region’s equity markets higher, as chip and technology shares climbed.

Despite multiple sessions in the red, all three benchmark indexes are on track to close higher this week.

Amazon stock jumped after the e-commerce and cloud-computing giant reported second-quarter results. The closely-watched Amazon Web Services business grew 37% to $42.4 billion. Analysts were forecasting 31.3% growth for AWS prior to the report.

Amazon.com topped market expectations for quarterly cloud revenue growth on Thursday on the back of surging enterprise AI spending, signaling the company's hefty investments ‌were bearing fruit. Revenue at its cloud computing unit, Amazon Web Services, jumped 37% ‌to $42.2 billion in the second quarter ended June 30, compared with analysts' consensus estimate of a 31.21% increase, according to ​data compiled by LSEG. Amazon said it burned $7.6 billion of cash on a trailing twelve months basis in the second quarter, compared to $18.2 billion in free cash flow a year earlier.

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Today, July 30, 2026, investors are pivoting back into technology despite GDP slowdown, with the Nasdaq climbing on broad semiconductor strength.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) are both spending aggressively to secure leadership in artificial intelligence, yet their latest earnings reports have produced starkly different reactions. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) jumped 15% on Thursday after the tech giant reported better-than-expected fiscal fourth-quarter results and issued a better-than-expected outlook for the first quarter of 2027. Meanwhile, Meta […]

By Karen Brettell July 30 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks gained on Thursday as Microsoft's forecast-beating results eased investor concerns about massive AI spending by companies, while 30-year Treasury