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S&P Global Ratings announced Thursday that it was downgrading the credit ratings of the software and AI cloud computing giant from BBB to BBB-, one notch above speculative grade, or junk-bond, ratings. Oracle’s “growing AI infrastructure business is diluting its strong business risk profile,” S&P analysts wrote. The extra yield, or spread, that investors are demanding to hold Oracle’s 5.7% bonds due in 2036 was recently 1.84 percentage points, according to MarketAxess, up from 1.75 percentage points Wednesday.

Investing.com — Oracle Corp. (NYSE:ORCL) shares managed to gain 2.7% on Thursday, defying a credit rating downgrade from S&P Global Ratings. While shares edged slightly lower from their midday highs, the tech giant still traded firmly in positive territory. Investors chose to focus on Oracle’s staggering $638 billion backlog of cloud contracts rather than the immediately apparent threat to its balance sheet: S&P downgraded Oracle’s long-term issuer credit rating to ’BBB-’ from ’BBB’, retaining a