Stocks rose in morning trading on Wall Street Thursday and are on track for more record highs amid rallies for big technology stocks. The S&P 500 rose 0.2% and is just below the record high it set on Monday.

Stocks indexes were mixed in afternoon trading on Wall Street Thursday after a health care sector slide offset some of the gains from a rally among big tech companies. The S&P 500 was up less than 0.1%,

Big rallies for Microsoft and Facebook's parent company are helping lift stocks on Wall Street amid choppy trading. The S&P 500 rose 0.2% in afternoon trading Thursday. The Dow Jones

Microsoft’s software licensing terms are harming competition in the cloud computing market, an investigation ordered by the UK antitrust regulator has found, driving up costs for its Big Tech rivals.

The dominant position of Amazon and Microsoft in cloud computing is harming competition, with their impact exacerbated by technical and commercial barriers to switching, an inquiry group from Britain's antitrust regulator said.

Britain’s competition regulator called for a probe into Microsoft and Amazon’s cloud market dominance under the country’s strict new tech rules.