Microsoft's stock price was up as high as 5.8 percent in trading today before it closed 3.98 percent higher, reaching a new all-time high trading price for the company's stock at 359.49.
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While Microsoft's stock price seems to be unaffected by today's news of the UK's rejection of its purchase of Activision Blizzard, the game publisher is suffering from a major stock downturn.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates said today in a TV interview that his previous sell off of his stock in the company will stop by the end of 2014, saying, "I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock."
