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Here's what to head on this week's Investing Insights. Tax and IRA expert, Ed Slot, talks about

some new RMD rules that retirees should know, plus what Morningstar considers key for Microsoft's

long-term growth, and travel's comeback is still going. Our travel industry

analysts will share where investors should look for opportunities. This is Investing Insights.

Welcome to Investing Insights. I'm your host, Ivana Hampton, and let's get started with a look at the

Morning Star headlines. Microsoft reported a solid fiscal second quarter as it restructures the

company to increase efficiency. However, the outlook for March was once again shy of Morning

Stars below consensus estimates. Azure's growth is decelerating, but the cloud computing's

platform results came in slightly better than expected. Microsoft revenue grew 2% year-over-year

to almost $53 billion for the December quarter. The commercial segments of productivity and

business processes and intelligent cloud grew compared with the same period

last year. Meanwhile, the more personal computing segment that includes Windows and gaming

declined. Morningstar is pleased with strong year-over-year growth for cloud platforms, Azure and

Dynamics 365, both are key pillars to our long-term growth estimates, and we think

Microsoft shares are worth $310 each and continue to view the stock as attractive.

Electric Vehicle Maker Tesla says 2020 was its, quote, best year ever on every level, and it's

seeing its strongest orders ever in the

company's history so far this year. Morningstar Research Services Equity Strategist, Seth Goldstein

calls the results solid. However, Tesla fails short of Wall Street's expectations in the fourth

quarter. That's despite the results showing substantial year-over-year gains.

Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, says the U.S. will, quote, probably have a pretty difficult recession this year.

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