@jtigger:$Alibaba(BABA)$  earnings should be positive with the china retail sales looking good

@meurasian77:‌$Microsoft(MSFT)$  ‌msft, a bearish perspective: MSFT is a dying company. It has abandoned the needs and wants of its customers, and has supplanted a near-term focus on profits and the fostering chaos through endless wholesale changes to its operating system. Profits and the changes now seem to never reach expectations.   The catalyst of this failure is that management is driven by the needs and wants of its employees, and the perverted thought that there is no alternative. Thus, a focus on “equity,” supposed “global warming/cooling/climate change,” “race relations,” etc. can be rationalized. msft quit trying to predict the future. you have no clue or bad marketing skills. sometimes you have to go door to door and sell a vac