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The Hackett Group (NASDAQ:HCKT) reported second-quarter 2026 revenue before reimbursements of $68.3 million and adjusted diluted earnings per share of $0.34, as the consulting firm continued its transition toward an AI-enabled, platform-led sales and delivery model. Revenue before reimbursements in
Microsoft Corp, Meta Platforms Inc, Oracle Corp, Amazon and Alphabet have committed about $1.09 trillion in future payments under leases that have not yet begun, mostly for data centres needed to power the artificial intelligence boom. The commitments show that a substantial part of Big Tech's AI spending spree has already been locked in, without yet appearing as debt-like lease liabilities on company balance sheets. The total is nearly four times the roughly $285 billion of lease liabilities already recognised on the companies' balance sheets, according to company filings compiled by Reuters.
Cloud computing giant Oracle Corp is on the cusp of a junk-grade credit rating and its shares have tanked as the artificial intelligence hyperscaler becomes the fall guy of investors' concerns over the sector's debt-fuelled spending binge. The U.S. multinational is an outlier among top software firms racing to buy chips and build computing power to leapfrog the AI boom, forced by its limited cash reserves to borrow heavily and undertake massive long-term leases. The extent of the splurge came to light in June, when Oracle's results for the fiscal year ending in May 2026 showed its free cash flows were negative, the bulk of its revenue was spent on capital expenditure and it had signed roughly $260 billion of data centre leases, some starting next year.
Next year, sales are expected to grow by 59% to $80 billion with earnings surging by more than 80% to $13.87.
AMD heads into its August 4 earnings report riding a massive AI-fueled surge, but a demanding valuation and fresh insider selling raise the question of whether the rally has legs or a stumble is coming.
Amazon.com’s strong earnings are providing a boost to battered AI hyperscaler bonds. Amazon shares jumped 15% Friday after the company reported accelerating cloud-computing sales. The momentum carried over to its bonds: the extra yield, or spread, investors demand to hold its 6.
Apple (AAPL) stock continues to drop on Friday while shares of Amazon (AMZN) surge since the two tech giants posted earnings results yesterday. Morning Brief Host Julie Hyman is joined by Yahoo Finance Breaking News Reporter Jake Conley and Trustless Media Founder Zack Guzman take a closer look at the key figures that Apple reported in its earnings release.
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Major U.S. technology companies are borrowing heavily as they ramp up spending on their artificial intelligence buildout, and at steadily higher yields as investors become more selective about absorbing the growing supply. Amazon, Alphabet, Meta Platforms and Oracle issued about $194 billion of bonds in 2026 through July 7, up 79% from roughly $108 billion in all of 2025, according to a Reuters analysis of LSEG data. Goldman Sachs expects bond issuance by the five hyperscalers, including Microsoft Corp, to reach roughly $250 billion this year and $400 billion in 2027.
By Amanda Cooper July 29 (Reuters) - Shares in companies driving the AI boom have been under pressure for weeks.
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(Bloomberg) -- For months, Big Tech has flooded debt markets with mega bonds that were initially snatched up by investors keen to get exposure to the artificial intelligence boom. As demand wanes and bubble concerns mount, those deals are becoming harder and costlier to get over the line. Most Read from BloombergChip Rout Deepens on Circular Funding, China Competition FearsNvidia’s $750 Billion in Deals Reignite Circular AI FearsCitadel Securities Sees Warsh Delivering Surprise Fed HikeApple Set
DTE Energy (NYSE:DTE) said it earned operating income of $274 million, or $1.32 per share, in the second quarter of 2026 and said results keep it on track to reach the high end of its full-year operating EPS guidance range. President and CEO Joi Harris said the company continued to advance reliabil
Wall Street’s forecasts for Big Tech require a major leap of faith: that the biggest AI hyperscalers can boost revenue much faster than the costs of running their businesses. Investors are already on edge about these companies’ soaring capital expenditures related to artificial intelligence. The bullish earnings narrative requires these companies to achieve newfound operating efficiency even as they spend trillions of dollars in capex over the next few years.
‘The money has to come from somewhere,’ says Bryce Doty at Sit, of pressure heavy AI-debt supply and the rest of the bond market
Oracle is set to report Q1 earnings, with analysts expecting double-digit year-over-year EPS growth.
Nvidia is in talks to provide a roughly $250 billion financing for OpenAI as part of a massive data center project, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The guarantees from Nvidia would help the ChatGPT maker lease a 10-gigawatt project that SoftBank's energy subsidiary is developing in southern Ohio, the newspaper said, citing people familiar with the matter. Nvidia, OpenAI and U.S. Commerce Department did not respond to requests for comment outside regular business hours.
The U.S. Department of Defense has entered an aggressive new era of spending this year. Before launching into its massive new tech overhauls, it kicked off the momentum with a $266 million firm-fixed-price contract awarded to Rocket Lab for 12 suborbital launches. But aerospace isn't the only ...
Orchid Island Capital (NYSE:ORC) reported second-quarter 2026 earnings of $0.44 per share, compared with a loss of $0.11 per share in the first quarter, as book value and total return improved during the period. Controller Jerry Sintes said book value rose to $7.22 per share at June 30 from $7.08 a
Oracle stock climbed in early trading Friday after the enterprise technology company won a software deal with the Pentagon that could be worth $7 billion over the next decade. Oracle has been a Pentagon contractor since the early 1990s, the company noted in its news release. Oracle stock was up more than 2% to 122.70 in recent trades on the stock market today.
The Defense Department signed an up to 10-year, near $7 billion contract with Oracle intended to streamline fragmented licensing and intra-agency efficiency. The Austin-based cloud computing and software company separately maintained different contracts across the agency.
WASHINGTON, July 23 () - The Pentagon announced on Thursday a nearly $7 billion, up-to-10-year agreement with Oracle to consolidate the department's on-premises software licenses into a single contract, the latest move by the Pentagon's technology chief to cut costs by eliminating fragmented purchasing. The Enterprise Software Agreement, negotiated by the Department of the Navy, is between the Pentagon and Oracle for its on-premises compute usage.
(Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. launched products this week allowing investors to quickly cut — or ramp up — exposure to tech industry debt, as concerns mount over hyperscalers’ huge future bond sales for artificial intelligence investments.Most Read from BloombergRetina Chip Designed to Restore Sight to Go on Sale in EuropeHegseth Turns to UNC, Virginia Tech After Dropping Ivy LeagueApple Plans Overhaul of MacBooks, iMac in Push to Meet AI DemandAlphabet Falls a
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