Ftse 100, italy, spain, all up. Looking at crude. Wti sitting at 50. 91. Lets get to that microsoft story. It is the top corporate story. Shares of the tech giant popping on better than expected quarterly results. The big driver, the cloud. The shares of the microsoft product doubling in the most recent quarter. The stock hitting an alltime high in afterhours trading breaking through a level hit at the peak of the tech bubble back in 1999. Its going to close in on a half trillion dollars again. Its great day to have ballmer on. He took a lot of flack for not turning it into something it wasnt. In hindsight, now that we have the benefit of hindsight, he kept that thing moving along. Increasing revenue. Maybe the share price didnt go all the way back. Got pretty rich himself. How much does he have left . I expect him well have him for an hour. I expect him to be in a really good mood today. Because of the stock price. Very few of us get like 4 billion richer on wake up in the morning. I
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