Alphabet hits all-high; Microsoft leads Dow; Facebook and Amazon eye $300b mark

Time for your daily dose of trending tickers, the stocks you're following based on your Yahoo Finance ticker searches.

Microsoft 

Tech stocks like Microsoft (MSFT) led the rally on Wall Street. The stock was the blue chip's biggest gainer, up more than 10% after a better-than-expected quarter, earning $0.67 a share versus estimates of $0.58 a share. Revenue came in at $21.66 billion. Microsoft said its new Windows 10 operating system currently runs on 110 million devices.

Alphabet 

Google's parent company Alphabet (GOOGL) also spiked higher. Alphabet beat earnings estimates by 14 cents with Q3 profit of $7.20 a share. Advertising revenue on its Google sites pushed sales to rise 13% to $18.68 billion. The new holding company for Google also announced its first stock repurchase program and plans to buyback $5 billion dollars in shares.

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Facebook

Not to be left out of the tech rally, Facebook (FB) also edged higher. The stock opened at an all-time high and traded above $100 dollars a share for the first time in its three-year history. Facebook and Amazon (AMZN) are now head-to-head on becoming the next U.S. listed company to cross the $300 billion level in market cap.

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