{"id":258807,"date":"2026-01-30T05:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258807\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T05:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:10:09","slug":"us-stocks-dip-as-meta-surges-while-microsoft-slumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258807\/","title":{"rendered":"US stocks dip as Meta surges while Microsoft slumps"},"content":{"rendered":"

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29 Jan, 2026 07:03 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n

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Meta shares rose 8% on strong AI results, while Microsoft fell 10% due to AI spending concerns. Photo \/ Samuel Boivin, NurPhoto, AFP<\/p>\n

In the US, Wall Street stocks dipped following diverging reactions to earnings from tech giants Microsoft and Facebook parent Meta Platforms.<\/p>\n

Shares of Meta jumped about 8% after strong results boosted confidence in the company\u2019s aggressive artificial intelligence push, while Microsoft tumbled about 10% as surging AI spending rattled investors.<\/p>\n

About 20 minutes into trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down less than 0.1% at 49,004.48.<\/p>\n

The broad-based S&P 500 declined 0.4% to 6951.01, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 1.0% to 23,625.19.<\/p>\n

With AI, \u201cinitially, a rising tide lifted all boats\u201d, said CFRA Research\u2019s Sam Stovall. \u201cBut this time around, investors will look at stocks on a company-by-company basis because not all are benefiting now at the same rate of pace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 29 Jan, 2026 07:03 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[806,138,30276,97110,7498,4568,4636,5504,71,2734,898,609,111,139,69,6185,11747,52203,42302,643,5424,21938,370,3040,13558,6123],"class_list":["post-258807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-as","tag-business","tag-dip","tag-dipped","tag-diverging","tag-earnings","tag-facebook","tag-following","tag-from","tag-giants","tag-meta","tag-microsoft","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-parent","tag-platforms","tag-reactions","tag-slumps","tag-stocks","tag-street","tag-surges","tag-tech","tag-us","tag-wall","tag-while"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}