{"id":444312,"date":"2026-01-29T03:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444312\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T03:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:44:08","slug":"microsoft-meta-earnings-for-q4-and-tech-giants-ai-spending-plans-draw-different-reactions-from-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444312\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft, Meta earnings for Q4 and tech giants\u2019 AI spending plans draw different reactions from Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the space of a few hours a bizarre Rorschach test played out on Wall Street, as analysts and investors digested the December quarter results from two of the most important companies in the world: Microsoft and Meta Platforms.<\/p>\n<p>On the surface at least, both companies delivered similarly impressive results. At Microsoft, revenue surged 17 per cent to $US81.3 billion ($115.4 billion) and operating income jumped 21 per cent to $US38.3 million, beating analyst expectations and highlighting strong earnings growth.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the space of a few hours a bizarre Rorschach test played out on Wall Street, as analysts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-444312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}