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IBM stock collapses 25% after the company preannounced its Q2 earnings results.
Jim Cramer pinpointed a single market variable that could either unlock NVIDIA's next surge or keep the stock in check, and it has nothing to do with earnings or tariffs.
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Investing.com -- B. Riley is framing this week's second-quarter earnings reports from ASML and TSMC as "tone-setting" for the entire semiconductor and semiconductor capital equipment sector, arguing that a $880 billion surge in AI infrastructure spending has arrived roughly 12 months ahead of the firm's prior forecasts.
Since the AI hiring correction took hold, tens of thousands of employees have watched their jobs disappear, despite the companies that cut them posting some of the strongest earnings in their history. Oracle (ORCL) eliminated 21,000 positions over the past year, even as its full-year adjusted ...
Oracle's annual filing cited AI adoption among the drivers of 21,000 job cuts in fiscal 2026. Snap cut 1,000 people and the CEO said rapid AI advances meant a smaller team could do the same work. At college graduation ceremonies this spring, speakers who brought up AI got booed. By May, Challenger, ...
Oracle’s stock performance from the 1980s pushed the tech giant to split its shares. Its fortunes rose and fell during the dot-com era, and then picked up again in recent years with the popularity of artificial intelligence. Here’s how many times Oracle — whose foundational business was ...
Investing.com -- Investors are reassessing artificial intelligence investments as surging infrastructure spending could weigh on earnings growth and valuation multiples, even as demand for AI services remains robust, according to ING.
Oracle has expanded in recent years from providing database software management to cloud computing, which has been its biggest contributor to sales. In its fiscal 2026 year, the tech giant posted net income of $17 billion on revenue of $67 billion, with its cloud business accounting for just a ...
Jim Cramer says the SK Hynix mega-listing clears the biggest threat hanging over AI stocks in 2026, but one scenario could blow that thesis apart before summer ends.
Oracle (ORCL) reported earnings 30 days ago. What's next for the stock? We take a look at earnings estimates for some clues.
LONDON, July 10 () - Britain has designated cloud service providers Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle as critical third-party suppliers to its financial sector, bringing them under direct regulatory oversight. The move is aimed at strengthening the resilience of financial firms by reducing the risk of widespread disruption from cyber attacks or technology outages.
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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
Oracle stock got a boost as OpenAI touted the performance of its GPT 5.6 Sol model. ChatGPT is a key partner to Oracle.
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Oracle (ORCL) just booked the strongest sales year in its history, yet investors sold it anyway. The stock trades near $143, down about 27% in 2026 and off more than 50% from its 52-week high near $346. That kind of drop usually follows a bad quarter, but Oracle’s was the opposite of bad. So the ...
AI disruption is a hot earnings call topic.
(Bloomberg) -- Meta Platforms Inc. debuted a new image-generation artificial intelligence model, its first such release since the company spent billions to rebuild its AI lab under Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang a year ago.Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaChip Stocks Slide on Worries Rally Has Run Too Far: Markets WrapTwo Millennium Trading Pods Made About $3.7 Billion Last MonthMicrosoft’s Xbox to Cut 3,200 Jobs, Divest Five Studios in Majo
(Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc.’s massive bond sale dragged down outstanding hyperscaler debt on Tuesday as investors sold existing securities to fund the new issue, signaling growing fatigue over the barrage of artificial intelligence financings.Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaChip Stocks Slide on Worries Rally Has Run Too Far: Markets WrapTwo Millennium Trading Pods Made About $3.7 Billion Last MonthMicrosoft’s Xbox to Cut 3,200 Jobs, Dive
Another day, another massive bond sale from a company borrowing heavily to invest in artificial-intelligence infrastructure. Amazon is expected to issue at least $25 billion of new U.S.-dollar bonds today, just four months after it issued $37 billion of bonds in the U.
Role eliminations at cloud computing companies, especially Oracle, comprise the lion’s share of 2026 tech layoffs.
Investing.com -- Piper Sandler defended its Overweight rating on Oracle in a note to clients on Monday, arguing the company could generate approximately $2.2 billion in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure revenue not currently captured in consensus estimates, based on the firm’s analysis of capital expenditure to data center capacity to revenue conversion.
