Wall Street's main indexes rose on Thursday, driven by post-earnings advances in Meta and Tesla, although Microsoft's weak cloud forecast and downbeat results from Cigna dampened investor enthusiasm. Microsoft MSFT.O dropped 4.7% after forecasting disappointing growth in its cloud computing business.
These Stocks Moved the Most Today: Tesla, Microsoft, Meta, UPS, IBM, Nvidia, Comcast, Las Vegas Sands, American, Juniper, and More Tesla stock rises on optimism over the electric-vehicle maker’s growth projections, Microsoft’s Azure growth misses estimates, Meta’s fourth-quarter profit handily tops forecasts, and UPS says it will be reducing volume with Amazon.
A broad stock market rally picked up the pace with an hour to go in Thursday’s session. The Dow was up 271 points, or 0.6%. The S&P 500 was up 0.7%. The Nasdaq Composite was up 0.5%. Though a majority of S&P and Dow stocks have been rising all day,
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Microsoft shares slumped on Thursday after the company's earnings left investors disappointed overnight. Meanwhile, Meta and Tesla traded higher, having shaken off the initial weakness that greeted their latest results.
Results for the US tech giants were mixed, as Tesla and Microsoft fell short of market expectations in the growth of their core businesses, while Meta Platforms exceeded analysts' estimates across all metrics,