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Kiplinger
Business
Karee Venema

Stocks Can't Hold Meta, Microsoft Gains: Stock Market Today

Closeup of stock market chart with teal, red and green moving averages.

Stocks shot out of the gate Thursday thanks to a pair of strong Big Tech earnings reports. The main indexes were lower by the close, though, as caution set in ahead of tomorrow's jobs report and President Donald Trump's tariff deadline.

Facebook parent Meta Platforms (META) and tech giant Microsoft (MSFT) led the charge higher early on, thanks to the mega caps' strong quarterly results.

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