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Oracle shares fell in the Thursday premarket after the company reported mixed earnings results for its fiscal fourth quarter after the Wednesday bell. Oracle also said that its capital expenditures for the current fiscal year would be around $70 billion, plus another $20 billion to $25 billion paid directly by customers. In its just ended fiscal 2026 year, Oracle’s capex was $56 billion, up from $21 billion in fiscal 2025.

Investing.com -- Shares in SAP (NYSE:SAP) (ETR:SAPG) dropped more than 4% after rival Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) unveiled capital spending plans for fiscal 2027 that came in well above Wall Street expectations.

Oracle expects a net cash outlay for capital expenditures of around $70 billion for fiscal 2027, Chief Financial Officer Hillary Maxson said Wednesday. The reported amount will be higher by about $20 billion to $25 billion due to prepayment and customer impacts.

New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh and the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) may be forced to tackle rapidly rising inflation.

Investors are counting down to the end of the week when Elon Musk’s SpaceX is expected to start trading in what could be the largest IPO on record. Some analysts have blamed recent volatility to investor repositioning ahead of the first trades.

The legendary investor preached the value of buying good companies at reasonable prices.

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The market looked set to rebound on Thursday as investors piled back into tech stocks, which have taken a beating in recent days due to worries about higher inflation and the looming SpaceX IPO. “We remain constructive on the long-term bull market, but mounting technical evidence suggests an increased risk of a deeper pullback,” said LPL Financial’s chief technical strategist Adam Turnquist. The European Central Bank is widely expected to hike interest rates for the first time in nearly three years, which could foreshadow future tightening by the Federal Reserve and other central banks.

Elon Musk is expected to appear virtually at an event by computer chip ‌equipment giant ASML on Thursday to discuss Terafab, his ‌plan for a massive chipmaking plant to supply Tesla and IPO-bound SpaceX. The pricing of ​the initial public offering of Musk's SpaceX, potentially the largest ever, is expected later on Thursday. "Musk will share his vision on AI, robotics, space, and semiconductor manufacturing," an ASML spokesperson said in a statement.

SpaceX's IPO has reportedly attracted demand far exceeding available shares, with only about 7% of stock expected to be freely tradable after listing.

Germany’s Neura Robotics said it secured up to $1.4 billion in funding to build a physical artificial intelligence platform, backed by Amazon Nvidia and the European Investment Bank. The robotics company on Wednesday said the funding aims to scale production to several million robots by 2030 as demand for physical AI expands across manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and consumer applications. The company, which reports an order backlog exceeding $1 billion, said it received backing from technology and financial players, including Tether, Amazon, Nvidia, Qualcomm Technologies Bosch, Schaeffler and the European Investment Bank.

The SpaceX IPO prospectus makes several bold claims.

The fine for the personal-data breach at the e-commerce company is the largest ever imposed on a single company in South Korea.

This phrase gets used loosely in technology investing: "platform shift." And most of the time, it’s actually an incremental change just dressed up in some dramatic language. And trust me when I tell you, what Cloudflare described at its 2026 Investor Day is something different. And even Morgan ...

The stock market debut of Elon Musk's AI and space company could make thousands of SpaceX employees significantly wealthier, including some of the firm's lowest-paid staff.View on euronews

The May Consumer Price Index was largely in line with expectations, with headline inflation rising 0.5% month-over-month and core CPI up 0.2%, one-tenth below forecasts. But inflation remains the economy's major pain point, regardless of who ultimately absorbs the costs, notes Peter Boockvar, editor of The Boock Report.

Oracle Corp (ORCL) reports a robust Q4 with significant gains in cloud infrastructure and AI contracts, despite challenges in gross margins and competitive pressures.

Oracle beat Q4 earnings and sealed a $300B OpenAI deal. Flat guidance sent shares down 8%. The AI bet has a price.

South Korea has slapped a record fine on Coupang, the country’s largest online retailer, over a data breach that hit most of its population,...

Index fund buying could one day become a powerful force behind the rocket maker's stock. But some of the index's oldest rules stand in the way.

South Korea will fine e-commerce giant Coupang 625 billion won ($409.30 million) over a massive leak of customer information last year and illegal collection of personal information, in ‌the country's largest data breach penalty on a company. The Personal Information Protection Commission said the New ‌York-listed company had leaked personal data of more than 33 million customers and failed to detect the breach within the 72 hours required ​by the law. "This accident occurred due to Coupang's lack of safety measures and systems, not sophisticated hacking," Song Kyung-hee, the chairperson of the privacy regulator, told a briefing on Thursday.

Fast-food restaurant chain franchisees, whether they sell pizza or burgers, are facing significant downsizing in restructurings to eliminate underperforming locations. Franchisees of chains such as Carl's Jr., Wendy's, Pizza Hut, and Papa John's have all announced recent closings of troubled ...

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SpaceX offers dominance, but Rocket Lab offers greater upside.

Some categories of investment theses don't make headlines. Not because they're boring, but because they move slowly enough that most investors lose patience before the payoff arrives. U.S. manufacturing reshoring has that kind of story. Morgan Stanley just spent a week with Rockwell Automation ...

Shares are mostly lower in Asia following another sell-off of artificial-intelligence stocks that dragged the U.S. market sharply lower. U.S. futures advanced and oil prices gained more than $1 a barrel.

At this point, any layoff news is not a surprise. And while the numbers often appear smaller in the company context, the impact on the people left to search for new jobs in this economy is significant. Despite the recent May jobs report, which said 172,000 new jobs were added, with over 90,000 ...

Black expects a strong debut, saying Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley could "engineer a Day 1 pop" for SpaceX investors.

SpaceX enters the final stretch Thursday before its expected trading on Wall Street as part of the biggest initial public offering in history, which could propel co-founder Elon Musk to trillionaire status.If all goes as expected, the space and rocket company co-founded by Musk in 2002 will begin trading on the Nasdaq exchange on Friday morning, with all eyes on how Wall Street will absorb the blockbuster IPO that could send tremors across global markets.