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It felt a little like the 1990s on Tuesday, as Coca-Cola took center stage in the stock market after the soft-drink leader reported strong second-quarter earnings. Coke stock rallied 5% to $88.27 after touching a record $90 earlier in the session. Other consumer stocks gained, including PepsiCo Colgate-Palmolive and Procter & Gamble as investors continued to rotate out of technology, with the exchange-traded fund losing 1.8%.

The investigation is looking at changes made to monthly and annual subscription plans for Microsoft 365.

By Johann M Cherian and Ragini Mathur July 29 (Reuters) - S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures inched higher on Wednesday as investors awaited the Federal Reserve's monetary policy verdict against a backdrop of

Seagate’s earnings give rival Western Digital a boost, while SK Hynix’s results drag down rival Micron.

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Wall Street futures were mostly higher pre-bell Wednesday as the global tech sector sell-off paused,

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U. S. stock futures traded close to unchanged on Wednesday as investors prepared for a pivotal session featuring the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate decision and quarterly earnings from artificial intelligence leaders Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT).

Britain's antitrust regulator said it would investigate Microsoft over whether it ‌misled personal and family customers when marketing ‌subscription plans for its ever-popular Microsoft 365 product, resulting in ​them overpaying. The Competition and Markets Authority said on Wednesday the probe would examine Microsoft's addition of its AI assistant Copilot to Microsoft 365 subscriptions. Personal and ‌family customers were ⁠initially offered Copilot at no extra cost, but some later faced higher-priced subscriptions when ⁠renewing.

Options traders expect a roughly $190 billion swing in Microsoft's market value after it reports earnings on Wednesday, an unusually large move that underscores investors' growing eagerness to see if billions of dollars in ‌AI spending are beginning to pay off. By comparison, over the last 12 earnings cycles, Microsoft has averaged a 4.8% implied move and a 4.4% actual move, Option Research & Technology Services (ORATS) data ​showed. The significantly higher pricing this quarter suggests that investors view Microsoft — one of the hyperscalers whose massive AI capital spending is at the heart of this year's AI rally and the broader bull market — as central to the AI earnings story.

Trader Talk host Kenny Polcari, Robinhood CIO Stephanie Guild, and Payne Capital Management President Ryan Payne break down the market's massive rotation out of big tech, the reality of AI infrastructure spending, and the bold case for an S&P 8,500 melt-up by year-end.

Tech giant Microsoft is set to report earnings today after the market close, and investors will be listening to hear whether the company expects to maintain the rapid growth at its cloud business, Azure. In its last quarterly earnings call, Microsoft said it expected roughly $190 billion in capex this calendar year, but the firm only spent about $30 billion in the first three months of the year. Microsoft shares closed up 1.1% yesterday, but they are 19% lower so far this year.

↗️ Ford Motor (F): Despite posting a drop in second-quarter revenue, the automaker boosted its full-year earnings outlook. Shares climbed more than 4% premarket. ↗️ Kering (FR:KER): Shares in Gucci’s parent company jumped more than 11% after revenue rose, signaling a recovery after years of weak demand.

SK Hynix reported a record operating profit of 60.54 trillion won (about $41.66 billion) in the second quarter, up 557% from the a year earlier. Its operating margin was 76%, up from 41% a year earlier. Analyst expectations for operating profit were even higher, and the miss fueled investors' concerns that SK Hynix's rival Samsung is pricing its products more aggressively, Jefferies wrote.

Retail sentiment remains ‘bearish’ on SPY and QQQ. Further weakness in QQQ will put it on track for the longest losing streak since August 2025.

By Niket Nishant and Ankur Banerjee July 29 (Reuters) - Global shares struggled to push higher on Wednesday, as modest gains in Europe and the U.S. did little to soothe investors spooked by a

Stocks were on track to open a touch higher Wednesday as investors shrugged off a rally in oil prices ahead of the Federal Reserve’s July interest-rate decision. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures climbed 41 points, or 0.1%. This could be a crucial day for the market, with the Fed set to announce its policy decision and mega-cap tech companies Meta and Microsoft due to report earnings after the closing bell.

After Alphabet raised its 2026 CapEx forecast, analysts believe cloud peers Microsoft and Amazon could follow suit.

Today Federal Reserve meeting: Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh will hold a press conference at 2:30 p.m. ET, following the FOMC interest-rate decision at 2 p.m. Earnings (a.m): Procter & Gamble, Humana, L3Harris, Biogen, General Dynamics, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Airbus Earnings (p.

QQQ rebounded with Wall Street as investors brace for a pivotal Wednesday featuring Big Tech earnings and a Fed rate decision that could drive market volatility.

Sony is set to be a major beneficiary of the launch of "Grand Theft Auto VI" but the highly anticipated game is landing as the PlayStation maker grapples with rising prices of ‌memory chips. The Japanese entertainment conglomerate, widely seen as the winner of the high-end console wars as Microsoft's Xbox business ‌retrenches, has a long history with Take-Two Interactive Software, which will launch its delayed "GTA VI" on November 19. "GTA VI will be console only and the vast majority of ​new users will choose a PlayStation 5," said Serkan Toto, founder of Kantan Games consultancy.

"The number one job of the President is to get the deficit under control,” Jason Calacanis wrote in a post on X.

Microsoft stock, down earlier this year, is up 5.5% in the past month. The answers to three AI-related questions could determine whether shares continue to gain.

Meta could deliver a record quarter for its core advertising business. But Wall Street will look past that for the latest on the company’s AI spending.

By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE, July 29 (Reuters) - Asian stocks sank on Wednesday, extending a vicious selloff as anxiety about AI valuations and whether the massive spending will deliver returns

Wall Street is paying top dollar to buy insurance against tech giants like Meta and Alphabet defaulting on their debt, in a sign that AI spending is seriously worrying the bond market. The five main data center operators— Alphabet Amazon.com Meta Platforms Microsoft and Oracle —are spending huge sums on the artificial intelligence buildout. For 2026, the aggregate free cash flow of the five hyperscalers is estimated to fall to negative $2.8 billion, from $187 billion in 2025.

As investors await Microsoft Corp’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) quarterly results, Gene Munster argues the company’s long-term AI strategy—not its near-term earnings—will determine whether it can maintain its market leadership. Munster Says Microsoft’s AI Transition Matters More Than Earnings Ahead of Microsoft’s earnings report on Wednesday, Deepwater Asset Management’s managing partner said that Wall Street is focused on the wrong metric, arguing that the software giant’s biggest challenges lie years ahead