According to Business Insider, Microsoft is set to release their first-quarter earnings report for 2019 after closing bell. But Microsoft's stock took a slide throughout the day on Wall Street, falling over 2-percent. Over 2018, Microsoft shares are down 24-percent, but today's losses were part of a broader fallout for tech stocks. The S&P 500's tech sector ended the day down about 2-percent due to Microsoft's losses, and losses for microchip manufacturers AMD, Intel, and Nvidia.