LIVE: Microsoft reports earnings

Microsoft is reporting earnings after the bell on Thursday.

Wall Street will be looking for continued signs of growth in Microsoft's all-important cloud business, which includes Microsoft Office 365 and the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. Notably, this is Microsoft's first earnings report since announcing its intent to acquire code-sharing startup GitHub for $7.5 billion.

Here are the numbers Wall Street will be looking for, according to Bloomberg data:

• Earnings per share (EPS) of $0.913.
• Revenues of $27.46 billion (GAAP).

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