Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
The Markets, Microsoft, & Meta Platforms All Surging 7-31-25
31 Jul 2025
In this episode, Scott Becker covers today’s market upswing, highlighting strong earnings reports from Microsoft and Meta Platforms.
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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.
Chapter 2: What are the main stories impacting the market today?
This is being powered by a couple different things. One is the market. There's more confidence that at some point we'll start to see rate cuts from the Fed. Not yet, but a couple people at the Fed were very aggressively calling for rate cuts.
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.
And I think they're the best performing of the Magnificent Seven so far this year. Maybe they and NVIDIA are the two best performing companies. In any event, a great day for the market so far, for Microsoft so far, and meta platforms, Facebook so far. We'll keep on watching the markets today so you don't have to.
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