S&P/TSX composite slides, U.S. markets mixed amid fresh earnings results

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 55.96 points at 49,071.56. The S&P 500 index was down 9.02 points at 6,969.01, while the Nasdaq composite was down 172.33 points at 23,685.12.Microsoft was the heaviest weight on the U.S. market by far, and the tech giant tumbled 10% even though it reported stronger profit and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected. Investors honed in instead on how much Microsoft is spending on investments, whether growth in its Azure cloud business will s ...