Stocks rose Tuesday, led by tech. AI fears loom as Meta, Microsoft report earnings. Tesla faces policy risks. Fed decision, major earnings, and government cuts ahead.

Key Takeaways Microsoft, Meta, and IBM all highlighted healthy growth in their AI businesses in the last three months of 2024.Microsoft and Meta, which cumulatively expect to invest nearly $150 billion in infrastructure in their respective 2025 fiscal years,

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.

Tesla’s core business underperformed in Q4, missing analyst expectations for both earnings and revenue. Microsoft’s Q2 results were strong but fell short of expectations for

Wall Street got a hard slap after the bell on Jan. 29 when Tesla, Meta, and Microsoft dropped their earnings reports, each showing numbers that didn’t hit the targets analysts had set. Investors saw their hopes crash as three of the biggest tech giants struggled on multiple fronts—electric vehicles,