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Spending by cloud providers and enterprises on AI data center infrastructure—chips, servers, and facilities—tracked as a broad economic indicator.
Oracle's $988 million of options for Larry Ellison and his two co-CEOs carry strikes of $280 and $308, against a share price of $137. The 53% fall tracks a build that consumed $55.7 billion of capital and left free cash flow at minus $23.7 billion.
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Fortune's 50-year data set puts services above a quarter of this year's revenue and 2025 profit at about $112 billion, up from roughly $2 billion in 2006. Fortune puts the new CEO's test on the data-centre buildout Apple has skipped.
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The San Francisco Fed's Adam Shapiro flagged the crossover in Bureau of Economic Analysis data. The margin is about half a percent, and S&P Global expects the six biggest spenders to run negative operating cash flow through 2027.
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Jessica Wachter left AI deployment forecasts alone and measured hyperscaler spending against the productivity growth needed to break even by 2030, an answer MIT Technology Review calls eye-opening.
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The company said in a filing that the money covers additional actions it expects to take. Roughly 92,000 of its 141,000 staff work outside the US, and collective cuts in the EU need consultation and written notice before anyone leaves.
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Oracle disclosed the plan on the 11th and said on the 12th that Ellison had terminated it. Priced off the $341.39 close the same account reports for the 10th, the 50 million shares come to $17.1 billion.
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Reported increases of 15% to 17% on Grace Blackwell 300 and Vera Rubin 200 racks shipping next year turn DRAM and HBM contract pricing into the governing input for 2027 capacity budgets.
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The KOSPI closed above 7,000 for the first time in 33 sessions on the 9th and gave the level back within two days, with Brent above $100 a barrel and the US 10-year at 4.97% ahead of next week's FOMC.
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Vanda Research measured about $370 million of retail money rotating into SpaceX's June debut and out of the Magnificent 7. That flow is the whole record standing behind two much larger listings now being prepared.
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Oracle cut about 13% of its headcount in fiscal 2026 and raised its restructuring charge by $700m on September 11. Free cash flow ran about $23.7bn negative, and management has guided capital spending to roughly $70bn.
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Oracle's $664bn of remaining performance obligations beat consensus by $46bn and lifted the stock 7 per cent after hours, while the fiscal 2027 revenue guide went from $90bn to at least $90bn and the EPS guide rose five cents.
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On TrendForce's numbers the memory bill grows 117% next year while the budget it sits inside grows 50%, which is why a headline capex print has stopped telling you how much compute actually got added.
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Export controls walled off China's AI demand from TSMC and Samsung. SMIC, the only domestic route to 7nm-class logic, is now repricing the captive pool it inherited.
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