{"id":1046260,"date":"2026-10-31T12:09:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046260"},"modified":"2026-10-31T12:09:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:39:38","slug":"microsoft-stock-rises-4-as-alphabet-shares-plunge-10-on-weak-google-search-sales-and-ai-spending-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/31\/microsoft-stock-rises-4-as-alphabet-shares-plunge-10-on-weak-google-search-sales-and-ai-spending-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft stock rises 4% as Alphabet shares plunge 10% on weak Google search sales and AI spending concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft (MSFT) shares rose 4% in pre-market trading on Thursday, while Alphabet (GOOGL), Google&#8217;s parent company, saw its shares plunge 10%. Investors reacted differently to the two companies&#8217; quarterly results.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s quarterly results were better than analysts had expected. The company&#8217;s strong sales growth, especially in its Azure cloud business, helped improve investor confidence. Alphabet&#8217;s results, in comparison, raised concerns about slowing growth and the rising cost of artificial intelligence (AI) investments, according to Yahoo Finance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft (MSFT) shares rose 4% in pre-market trading on Thursday, while Alphabet (GOOGL), Google&#8217;s parent company, saw its shares plunge 10%. Investors reacted differently to the two companies&#8217; quarterly results. Microsoft&#8217;s quarterly results were better than analysts had expected. The company&#8217;s strong sales growth, especially in its Azure cloud business, helped improve investor confidence. Alphabet&#8217;s results, in comparison, raised concerns about slowing growth and the rising cost of artificial intelligence (AI) investments, according to Yahoo Finance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046260","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046261,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046260\/revisions\/1046261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}