Microsoft is the worst Dow Jones stock Thursday as the tech giant's soft outlook offsets an earnings beat. Here's what you need to know.

Microsoft beat Wall Street’s earnings and revenue forecasts but its intelligent-cloud business fell short of estimates. The software giant posted earnings just days after the te

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.

Meta Platforms and most other U.S. stocks are rising Thursday following a rush of profit reports from some of the country’s most influential companies, but drops for Nvidia and Microsoft are keeping the market in check.

U.S. stocks slipped after the Federal Reserve held its main interest rate steady and broke a run of cuts that began in September