The Tech Giant strikes a new deal and shares of Weber Grill go up in smoke.

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I'm Chris Hill, joining me today, Motley Fool Senior Analyst, Jason Moser.

Happy Monday.

Happy Monday indeed.

Let's start with Microsoft, shall we?

Because Microsoft struck a deal with the London Stock Exchange.

The deal calls for the exchange to spend nearly $3 billion over the next decade on Microsoft

products.

It sounds like most of that is going to be spent on Azure Cloud services.

The London Stock Exchange gets a greater use of data and the chance to appeal to a broader

customer base in exchange for nearly $3 billion.

So it kind of seems like a win-win here.

Yeah, it definitely feels like it's a good thing for both companies.

When you look at it in the grand scheme of things, right, I think it's in agreement over

10 years to spend a minimum of $2.8 billion on cloud-related products with Microsoft.

So if you stretch that out, I mean you're looking at what, essentially, basically $280 million

per year over the next 10 years, and for at the minimum.

And for a company like Microsoft, a business that brought in $203 billion over the last

12 months, obviously not terribly meaningful from that perspective, right?

I mean, just from a simple numbers perspective, it's a drop in the bucket.

When you consider LSE, I mean that's, that's, they brought in around $9.1 billion in

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