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Others may think that they're becoming more and more a retailer again versus a tech company.

In any event, struggles there.

Sixth, UnitedHealth Group, also struggling, continuing its downward trajectory.

It's down another 3% to 4% today as it's out there replacing its CFO and announced it's replacing its CFO.

Finally, seventh, a stock that had rebounded so much this year is falling today.

Coinbase is down 15% plus today after missing on a wide range of earnings and revenue expectations.

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Those are some of the stories that we're sharing with you today.

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This is Scott Becker with the Becker Business Podcast, the Becker Private Equity Podcast.

This is the three big stories that we're following today.

The market's up, Microsoft up, and MetaPlatform's up.

So here's what's going on.

The stock market, after a relative couple of days, is up 1% today at the S&P, a little bit more than that at the NASDAQ.

You don't usually see that dissension there.

Second, Microsoft and Facebook each reported rate earnings for the last quarter.

Microsoft so far today is up 5% or so.

Early morning pre-market was up closer to 9%.

Meta Platforms, Facebook, the company that Mark Zuckerberg built, one of the big groups of modern commerce, is now up about 12% today, driven a heck of a year.