Live updates: Bitcoin holds near $64,000 as Microsoft's AI payoff lifts stocks

S&P 500 futures gained 0.2% and Nasdaq 100 contracts rose 0.4% after the index had slipped into a correction, with Microsoft up 8% in premarket after its cloud unit grew at the fastest pace in four years while it held the line on spending....
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