Big Tech Earnings Split the Market: MSFT Soars, AAPL Falls

Big Tech earnings are doing all the heavy lifting in this market right now, and they're pulling in opposite directions. Amazon's cloud number was the headline - AWS growth of 37%, the strongest in four years - and it lit up futures across the board [1][2][3]. Microsoft had arguably an even bigger day, up over 15% on record Azure growth and easing AI-monetization worries, its best single session since 2008 [4][5]. Apple, on the other hand, beat on revenue and EPS but got hammered anyway on weak guidance tied to chip shortages, falling about 7% just weeks after briefly touching…