Cortana is among the new features coming to a Windows Phone update called 8.1. The updated operating system will come with new phones in about a month, including three that Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) announced Wednesday. It will also be available as a free download for existing phones a few months later. Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) stock performance was 1.06% in last session and finished the day at $7.63. Traded volume was 23.53million shares in the last session and the average volume of the stock remained 21.48million shares. The beta of the stock remained 1.76.

Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA)’s stock had its “neutral” rating restated by stock analysts at Nomura in a report issued on Wednesday. Several other analysts have also recently commented on the stock. Analysts at Cowen and Company raised their price target on shares of Alcoa from $10.00 to $11.00 in a research note on Wednesday. Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA) dropped -1.46 percent to $12.85 Wednesday on volume of 26.48million shares. The intra-day range of the stock was $12.71 to $12.90. Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA) has a market capitalization of $13.85billion.

Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) posted the smallest sales increase of Detroit’s Big Three automakers — 3% compared to GM’s 4% and Chrysler’s 13%. Here are three quick and important takeaways from Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F)’s sales data. Ford considers any month when F-Series sales top 50,000 a solid month. That makes topping 70,000 in March a phenomenal month, and it’s something that has only happened four times since the recession. Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F)’s stock on Apr 02, 2014 reported a increase of 0.86% to the closing price of $16.46. Its fifty two weeks range is $12.15 -$18.02. The total market capitalization recorded $65.58billion. The overall volume in the last trading session was 39.93million shares. In its share capital, F has 3.94billion outstanding shares.

General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) announced that, with PowerStream Inc., a leading energy portfolio company, they have launched their first joint microgrid demonstration project, located at PowerStream’s headquarters in Vaughan, Ontario. On Wednesday, shares of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) advanced 0.66% to close the day at $26.04. Company return on investment (ROI) is 3.20% and its monthly performance is recorded as 1.52%. General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) quarterly revenue growth is -6.30%.