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I bought more Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) this morning, and I will probably buy more before the week ends. The stock is down 7.02% over the past week and 17.47% year to date, and every red candle has made me a more eager owner of a roughly $2.95 trillion business that is still growing like a mid-cap. ... Why I Can’t Stop Buying This Trillion-Dollar Juggernaut Even as June Volatility and the Fed Threaten to Shake Wall Street
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is one of the 13 Best Stocks to Invest In According to Billionaire Ken Griffin. Technology giant Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)’s shares are among the weakest performers in the market in 2026. They are down by 13% year-to-date. The firm was the target of a cybersecurity attack recently after hackers managed to compromise […]
New CEO Asha Sharma plans layoffs and budget cuts as Xbox confronts declining revenue and a 3% accountability margin.
Expanded partnership targets enterprise AI deployment across cloud and devices.
Report Says 200 To 400 Workers Are Affected
Today is dividend day at Microsoft, and one shareholder is collecting a check that dwarfs almost every Powerball jackpot in U.S. history. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) paid its quarterly dividend of $0.91 per share on June 11, 2026, declared March 10, 2026, with an ex-dividend and record date of May 21, 2026. For most investors, that works ... Steve Ballmer Just Received a $303 Million Check From Microsoft. That Retirement Payday is Bigger than Most Powerball Jackpots
The tech sector stalwart is thriving as a business, yet its stock is struggling.
Guinness Global Innovators, an investment management company, recently released its Q1 2026 quarterly investor update for its “Guinness Global Equity Income Fund”. A copy of the letter is available to download here. The Fund focuses on providing investors with global exposure to dividend-paying companies. In Q1 2026, the fund returned was -0.5% (GBP), compared to […]
(Bloomberg) -- Cloud-computing giants powering the artificial intelligence boom are tapping global debt markets to fund hundreds of billions of dollars needed for data centers, chips and other infrastructure. Junk-rated CoreWeave Inc. is now following their lead.Most Read from BloombergXbox Plans Significant Layoffs as New CEO Plans OverhaulHouse Republican Says Hegseth’s D-Day Remarks ‘Inappropriate’Trump Vows New Attacks on Iran, Threatens Key Energy TargetsUS Strikes Iran in Trump Escalation
Microsoft's Xbox division could soon face a large round of layoffs, as new CEO Asha Sharma looks to revamp the unit.
The company is reviewing Anthropic's data retention rules before wider internal use.
After a 40% run over the last 12 months, the conversation around CrowdStrike (CRWD) stock is almost entirely about artificial intelligence. You hear about the Mythos inflection point and a new generation of products designed to secure AI deployments. But with that excitement comes a fair question from skeptics: Is this a durable trend, or just a surge of interest and intent from companies still in the early innings of actual AI deployment.
CRWV is riding enterprise AI adoption with record bookings, a nearly $100B backlog and an expanding cloud platform built for production AI workloads.
Google Quantum AI COO Charina Chou confirmed the decision at the Semafor Tech Summit in San Francisco on June 10, saying the company walked away because of "various conditions that came with the funding" that would have prevented it from moving at its desired pace toward building a functional quantum computer. The disclosure sheds new light on why Google — alongside Microsoft and IonQ — was conspicuously absent from the Trump administration's list of nine quantum recipients announced last month.

Oracle (ORCL) stock has dropped by as much as 10% in Thursday's pre-market trading despite topping fiscal fourth quarter earnings and revenue estimates. Morning Brief Host Julie Hyman is joined by Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley and Monetary Matters Network co-founder Jack Farley for a conversation about whether the AI infrastructure company is showing signs of weakness or oversaturation in the buildout landscape.
Whenever the Nasdaq 100 slides more than 4% in a single day, as it did on Friday, it can feel like the stock market is crashing. Undoubtedly, it’s never fun when stocks experience their worst days in some number of months or even years. After all, historic stock market crashes tend to happen shortly after ... The Stock Market Isn’t Crashing. Investors Are Just Fleeing Technology Stocks.
(Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. said its data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water worldwide last year, or about 5% of the amount metro Seattle consumes annually.Most Read from BloombergXbox Plans Significant Layoffs as New CEO Plans OverhaulHouse Republican Says Hegseth’s D-Day Remarks ‘Inappropriate’US Strikes Iran in Trump Escalation Over Stalled Peace TalksOracle Falls Most in Six Months on Mounting Data Center CostsTech Stocks Sink as Oil Jumps on US-Iran Jitters: Markets WrapThe world’
The company's backlog of future business is staggering, but the market is focused on the equally staggering cost of building it all.
Wall Street looked set to rebound strongly on Thursday, before Donald Trump published a warning that the US will conduct strikes on Iran "very hard tonight". He added in a social media post that Washington "will be taking Kharg Island" and other oil infrastructure sites to "assume total...
News of the day for June 11, 2026
Layoffs reportedly affect Azure staff in China while Microsoft's cloud business continues strong growth.
Microsoft stock has been struggling despite the software maker's earnings beat for its third quarter.
Although Wall Street has rewarded every hyperscaler willing to pledge more silicon, more concrete, and more megawatts over the past 24 months, the math behind the AI data center boom is finally drawing scrutiny. Combined 2026 capital expenditure guidance from Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL), Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) now sums to roughly $800 ... Wall Street’s $800 Billion AI Data Center Bet Is Showing Cracks. Only 84 of 157 Gigawatts Will Be Built by