By Aditya Soni and Stephen Nellis April 29 (Reuters) - Microsoft's ( MSFT ) modest increase in quarterly cloud revenue growth on Wednesday failed to impress investors worried about rising competition in the artificial intelligence race, and its shares fell more than 2% in extended trading. Revenue at the company's Azure cloud-computing unit jumped 40% in the period, slightly faster...

05:03 PM EDT, 04/29/2026 (MT Newswires) -- US equity indexes closed mixed on Wednesday as crude oil futures and government bond yields rose amid concern that no end is in sight for the Iran war. The Federal Open Market Committee maintained its target rate at a policy meeting, but beneath that outcome, the level of dissent was, reportedly, the highest...

05:30 PM EDT, 04/29/2026 (MT Newswires) -- CFRA, an independent research provider, has provided MT Newswires with the following research alert. Analysts at CFRA have summarized their opinion as follows: CHRW delivered mixed Q1 results, with adjusted EPS rising 15.4% Y/Y to $1.35, beating consensus by 10%, while revenue remained flat at $4.0B, missing estimates by $40M. Adjusted operating margin...

04:52 PM EDT, 04/29/2026 (MT Newswires) -- US equities closed mixed Wednesday after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady at the end of what was likely Jerome Powell's last policy meeting as central bank chief. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.6% to 48,861.8, while the Nasdaq Composite and the S&P 500 were little changed at 24,673.2 and 7,136,...