Steve Daghlian

And then, of course, the fact that there was pretty much no progress being made between the US and Iran, that hasn't really been helpful for markets in the last week or two.

Wow.

And they've got that massive tech sector, of course.

We're dominated by the miners and financials over in the United States.

It's basically all tech that's the driving force.

And that's why I should touch on some of those big tech names that came out with their results after the US market shut early this morning, Sydney time.

We had some pretty big movements in both directions.

So it's likely to have an effect on US markets when they reopen again tonight.

So one of the big winners in after hours trade was Alphabet.

This is Google's parent company.

It was up around 7% in after hours trade.

Signs that it's seeing a clear payoff from its AI spending.

Solid growth across its cloud computing arm as well.

Another winner seemed to be Amazon, almost 3% higher in after-hours trade.

It reported a 30% lift in cloud computing revenue.

And Microsoft also posted its numbers.

Not too much movement in after-hours trade, though.

The big loser was Meta.

This is a Facebook parent company, 7% lower in after-hours trade.

So that could certainly be a weight tonight.