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Brian Sozzi highlights a striking market split that happened within hours: Alphabet posted a rare double miss on both sales and earnings plus negative free cash flow for a second straight quarter, and the market punished it; Microsoft reported accelerating Azure growth, guided revenue growth to 49 percent to 50 percent for the segment, and revealed capital spending roughly $5B below estimates, which the market rewarded. The clip shows how the same macro day can produce opposite stock reactions when cash flow and guidance diverge. It also includes lighter business color from Brooks Running and Chipotle that punctuates the corporate-news flow.