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UBS Lifts Oracle Price Target to $285, Sees AI Momentum Staying Strong

Software stocks have rebounded from a punishing selloff as investors are betting that AI may boost the sector rather than leaving it for dead. Now investors are flocking to firms they see succeeding at integrating AI and adjusting price models by charging clients based on actual usage – while steering clear of firms that are too dependent on traditional pricing, ​which involves subscription fees based on headcount. "While AI is causing massive disruption, it is remapping the industry rather than destroying it," said Daniel Morgan, portfolio manager at Synovus Trust in Atlanta.

By Karen Brettell June 3 (Reuters) - The artificial-intelligence boom already has fueled a record stock-market surge. Now it's driving up long-term Treasury yields too.

Google-parent Alphabet’s plan to raise $80 billion through equity sales signals that its AI spending intentions aren’t slowing down. Alphabet’s stock price slipped nearly 4% Tuesday, while the prospect of more capex surges in the future also weighed on the shares of cloud rivals Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle.

A Barchart report today shows unusually heavy trading in Oracle put options ahead of its earnings due out next Wednesday, June 10, after the market closes. This may signal that investors are bearish.

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The software sector is currently caught in a tug-of-war between profound optimism and existential dread over the future of artificial intelligence. After a brief period of euphoria, reality—and algorithmic trading—bit back hard, sending major software stocks tumbling in a sudden reversal. The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF fell 3%, wiping out half of the 6% gains it had recorded just a day prior. The bleeding was widespread across the industry’s biggest names: Atlassian plunged 8%, Hu

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Laffont's fund, Coatue Management, eliminated or reduced several of its notable tech and artificial intelligence positions in the first quarter of the year.

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Intuit (INTU) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of +2.59% and +0.45%, respectively, for the quarter ended April 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

OpenAI won its legal tussle with its former backer Elon Musk on Monday. A defeat in the case for OpenAI could have upended its business model and reverberated to all the businesses that have come to rely on its success— Microsoft and Oracle perhaps the most. It could have delayed an IPO that is currently expected as early as this year.

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The president’s investment accounts had a surge in activity, with more than 3,700 trades in the first quarter.

Institutional investors were eager buyers of stocks in companies whose fate hinges on the rollout and adoption of artificial intelligence during the first quarter of 2026, ‌according to a Reuters overview of filings by nearly 6,000 hedge funds, pension funds, college endowments and ‌other asset managers with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. These quarterly 13-F filings, which provide insight into how some major investors reacted to emerging opportunities ​and new sources of risk or anxiety during the three-month period, show that more than 4,000 of them added to their existing holdings or initiated new positions in a group of nine companies that are big players in the AI infrastructure arena, including Oracle, Arista Networks and Vertiv.

Oracle's stock is sitting roughly 50% below its September 2025 peak. Its backlog has grown to $553 billion. And Dan Ives just raised his price target for the second time in three weeks. The gap between where Oracle trades and what Wedbush thinks it is worth is becoming one of the more striking ...

Epistrophy Capital Research Chief Market Strategist and The Drill Down Podcast host Cory Johnson joins Market Catalysts to discuss the Cerebras IPO and key factors to watch in Nvidia’s (NVDA) upcoming earnings report.

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The networking company said Wednesday that it is launching a restructuring that will cost up to $1 billion in severance, one-time termination benefits and other costs.

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Tuesday closed down -0.16%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed up +0.11%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed down -0.87%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) fell -0.16%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...

SoftBank Group Corp founder Masayoshi Son is considering an investment of up to $100 ‌billion in France, including a multibillion-dollar project ‌to build AI infrastructure in the European nation, Bloomberg News reported ​on Monday. Companies have been channeling billions into data centres to power generative AI services. OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank announced in September last year plans for five U.S. AI ‌data centres for ⁠the $500 billion Stargate project, a plan to build a nationwide advanced AI network.

For years, investors in the biggest technology companies could count on one reliable outcome: the cash would come back to them. Profits piled up, balance sheets swelled, and buyback programs grew year after year, quietly supporting stock prices even when markets turned volatile. That dynamic is ...

Big Tech valuations are facing intense scrutiny as a financial commentator warns that hyperscalers’ earnings are being artificially inflated by circular cloud computing contracts with AI giants OpenAI and Anthropic. ‘Total Mirage’ In Cloud Revenues Recent data reveals a staggering...

Elon Musk is dissolving his artificial-intelligence company, xAI. Now, SpaceX is the entity that will vie for AI supremacy with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Alphabet The company is getting its ducks in a row ahead of an IPO that is expected to be the biggest ever, raising as much as $75 billion and valuing the company at up to $2 trillion. Wednesday afternoon, Musk tweeted “xAI will be dissolved as a separate company, so it will just be SpaceXAI, the AI products from SpaceX.”

I keep hitting the buy button on Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) because I have rarely seen a backlog like the one this company is sitting on, and I want to own as many shares as I reasonably can before the market fully prices it in. The thing that pulls me back, again and again, is a single ... Oracle’s $553 Billion Backlog Is Larger Than the GDP of Most Countries. It Also Grew 325% in a Year

After another dizzying rally yesterday, Intel shares closed at $108.15 a share. With the latest 13% gain, the back-in-favor-again chip giant can claim these accolades: Its market cap of $544 billion, a record for the company, now exceeds that of Oracle and Johnson & Johnson, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

The Hackett Group (NASDAQ:HCKT) reported first-quarter 2026 results that reflected what management described as ongoing macro-driven demand pressure and “elongated client decision cycles” tied in part to uncertainty around AI return on investment. Company leaders also emphasized that Hackett is in t