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DJ Cuppy is under fir£ for asking God to shower his blessings on her.

She was asked what about the one of her family?

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Microsoft (MSFT) shares fell in premarket trading on Friday after the tech giant suffered a major cloud services outage, linked to an system update by cybersecurity software firm CrowdStrike (CRWD), that affected banks, airlines, media outlets and companies around the globe.

Below, we’ll take a closer look at Microsoft’s chart and turn to technical analysis to identify important levels that may come into play in upcoming trading sessions.

Microsoft shares have remained in a long-term uptrend since the 50-day moving average (MA) crossed above the 200-day MA in March last year to generate a golden cross buy signal.

However, after climbing to a record high earlier this month, the shares have undergone a retracement of around 6% as investors book gains, potentially rotating some of the profits into small-cap stocks.

If the selling continues, investors should watch four key areas where Microsoft shares may find support.

An initial area to keep an eye on sits just below the current price and 50-day MA around $430, a location that may attract buying interest near several price peaks that formed on the chart between March and May.

A move below this level could see the shares test the $410 level, where they may encounter support from a horizontal line cutting through a range of similar prices from January to May.

Further selling may spark a fall to the $385 area, where the stock could attract a flurry of buy orders around the November 2023 swing high.

Finally, a deeper pullback in Microsoft shares could see the price revisit $367 near a lower trendline connecting the July 2023 swing high and a period of narrow consolidation between December 2023 and January this year.

If Microsoft shares find support around the $430 area and the uptrend resumes, investors can use a bars pattern to forecast a possible price target. To do this, we extract the trending move from June to early July and apply it to the first horizontal line on the chart. Doing so predicts a target of around $490. 

Microsoft shares were down 1.4% at $434.40 about two hours before Friday's opening bell.

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Three muslim clerics who are identified as Aliyu Musa, Aliyu Taiye, and Wasiu Babatunde, were arrested for allegedly exhuming the c@rps£ of a one-year-old boy identified as Taiwo Bisiriyu and thereafter using it for rit¥al in Omi-ifon in Odigbo LGA, Ondo State

Taiwo d+ed on Friday, July 5, 2024, and was buried the same day, while the clerics officiated at the burial. However, the incident happened on Tuesday, July 9, 2024

According to some residents, some of the items allegedly found in the clerics’ homes, included a pestle and a mortal, concoction, sponge, and black pot, among others.

The deceased’s guardian identified as Risikat Bisiriyu said, “The boy was ill and I took him to a Maternity Centre for treatment. He was later referred to the General Hospital in Ore. But on getting there, the boy d+ed.

Since we are Muslims by religion, we decided to bury the boy the same day, and we invited the clerics to officiate.

When we got to where the boy would be buried, one of the clerics who carried the c@rps£ went far into the bush to bury him. But the younger brother of the deceased’s father insisted he should bury the child at a particular place, not far inside the bush.

The child d+ed on Friday. So, on Monday, around 10 am, we were sitting outside the house, when the wife of one of the clerics came and told us that she didn’t know what her husband brought into the house that was smelling. But we paid no attention to what she said

About 11pm on Monday, we began to hear the cleric pounding some things till 4.30am. I jokingly said only God knows what he was pounding all through the night that disturbed our sleep. [Continue reading on next slide]

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Loans that provide workers an advance on their paychecks could face more regulations under a new proposal.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a new rule Thursday that would require paycheck advance products to present more accurate and additional disclosures about fees associated with that type of loan.

Employers sometimes partner with companies that will provide a loan for the size of a worker's upcoming paycheck. The worker will typically incur payroll deductions if they do not repay the loan and fees. Direct-to-consumer versions of this loan offer funds in advance to workers who then incur fees that are taken directly from their bank account.

The use of these loans has grown in recent years, as more than $22 billion was borrowed in 2022 by workers who needed an advance to cover expenses, according to the latest data from the CFPB. 

The typical annual percentage rate for employer-partnered loans was 109.5%, the CFPB found.

If adopted, the new rule would provide borrowers with a greater understanding of what fees are incurred with this type of loan.

“Paycheck advance products are often marketed to and designed for employers, rather than employees,” CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said in a press release. “The CFPB's actions will help workers know what they are getting with these products and prevent race-to-the-bottom business practices.”

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VeryDarkMan has shad£d businessman Blord for saying he’s a youth president.

He said he is a youth president who rips youth.

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Shares of Cintas (CTAS) traded at an all-time high Thursday, extending a strong year, after the business supplies company reported better-than-expected results and gave an upbeat outlook.

The provider of workplace uniforms posted fiscal 2024 fourth-quarter adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $3.99, with revenue increasing 8.2% to a record $2.47 billion. Both were above forecasts.

CFO Mike Hansen said Cintas benefited from both new customers and strength with existing ones, as well as supply chain improvements. The company made “focused efforts to extract inefficiencies from the business," Hansen said.

In a conference call, CEO Todd Schneider discussed customer retention he called "strong."

"When you have as broad of a customer base as we do, there are certainly some aspects that are thriving and some that are struggling," he said in a transcript provided by AlphaSense. "It varies based upon industry. It varies based upon geography. But when you speak as a whole, I would say ... we haven't seen much change in it so far.

Cintas anticipates fiscal 2025 adjusted EPS of $16.25 to $16.75, and sales of $10.16 billion to $10.31 billion. Schneider said the guidance “reflects our continued confidence in our strategy.”

Cintas shares, which rose more than 5% today, are up about 30% this year.

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