{"id":1025161,"date":"2026-07-31T08:18:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025161"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:54:17","slug":"explained-why-microsoft-shares-rallied-9-in-extended-trading-after-q4-earnings-despite-ai-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/31\/explained-why-microsoft-shares-rallied-9-in-extended-trading-after-q4-earnings-despite-ai-worries\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: Why Microsoft shares rallied 9% in extended trading after Q4 earnings despite AI worries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft shares sharply rallied nearly 9% in extended trading hours on Wednesday after the tech giant\u2019s Q4 earnings beat expectations, despite global worries around hyperscalers increasing their already massive AI spending. <\/p>\n<p>In post-market hours on Wednesday, Microsoft said it expects to keep generating cash through fiscal 2027 and provided a capital expenditure estimate below Wall Street expectations following an accounting change for data centre leases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft shares sharply rallied nearly 9% in extended trading hours on Wednesday after the tech giant\u2019s Q4 earnings beat expectations, despite global worries around hyperscalers increasing their already massive AI spending. In post-market hours on Wednesday, Microsoft said it expects to keep generating cash through fiscal 2027 and provided a capital expenditure estimate below Wall Street expectations following an accounting change for data centre leases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025182,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025161\/revisions\/1025182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}