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Sydney FC Head Coach Ufuk Talay has lifted the lid on how he’ll tell his charges to approach Saturday’s ‘must-not-lose’ clash with Melbourne City. The Sky Blues attacking, dynamic, front-foot football has been a feature of their play all season but with only a point required to secure a spot in the Finals, Talay was asked whether they’ll approach it differently. “We always set up the team to go and win games and we’ve never set up the team not to lose but obviously in the back of our heads... Read More

Microsoft MSFT spread optimism on Wall Street after reporting its blowout third-quarter fiscal 2025 results. It beat earnings and revenue estimates, driven by strong cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) growth. MSFT shares jumped as much as  8% in after-market hours, adding more than $200 billion to its market value (see: all the Technology ETFs here).  Investors should tap Microsoft’s growth with ETFs having double-digit exposure to the software leader. These include iShares Dow Jones US Technology ETF IYW, MSCI Information Technology Index ETF FTEC, Vanguard Information Technology ETF VGT,... Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the company at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on April 4, 2025. David Ryder Microsoft shares rose about 9% in extended trading on Wednesday after the company reported better-than-expected quarterly results, driven by its Azure cloud business, and issued surprisingly strong guidance Here’s how the company performed in comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: $3.46 vs. $3.22 expected Revenue: $70.07 billion vs. $68.42 billion expected Microsoft called for revenue in the range of $73.15 billion to... Read More

Microsoft forecast on Wednesday stronger-than-expected quarterly growth for its cloud-computing business Azure after blowout results in the latest quarter, calming investor worries in an uncertain economy and lifting its shares 7 per cent after hours.  Microsoft’s results, which follow similar outcomes from Google last week, could ease concerns about a potential slowdown in AI demand, after some analysts pointed to canceled data-center leases at Microsoft as a sign of excess capacity. Investors had also been worried about the fallout from sweeping U.S. tariffs that are prompting businesses to rein in... Read More