{"id":344391,"date":"2025-12-13T01:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344391\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T01:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:53:14","slug":"us-stocks-drop-as-oracle-misses-cloud-sales-ai-spending-concerns-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344391\/","title":{"rendered":"US Stocks Drop as Oracle Misses Cloud Sales, AI Spending Concerns Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">US stocks ended a choppy session higher, with dip buyers diving in after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/ORCL:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Oracle Corp.<\/a>\u2019s latest results reignited worries about whether technology companies can monetize their artificial intelligence investment plans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/SPX:Ind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">S&amp;P 500 Index<\/a> rose 0.2% to post its first record close since late October, reversing losses from earlier in the day. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/NDX:Ind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Nasdaq 100 Index<\/a> declined 0.4%, while the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/BM7P:Ind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Bloomberg Magnificent 7 Index<\/a> lost 0.6%. Oracle shares plunged 11% after the company said that capital expenditures, a metric of data-center spending, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-12-10\/oracle-posts-weak-cloud-sales-raising-fear-of-delayed-payoff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">were about $12 billion in the latest quarter<\/a>, up from $8.5 billion in the preceding period. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US stocks ended a choppy session higher, with dip buyers diving in after Oracle Corp.\u2019s latest results reignited&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,190658,5175,190659,20734,171,4861,38110,1063,2004,105,1491],"class_list":{"0":"post-344391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-capital-expenditures","14":"tag-chief-executive-officer","15":"tag-dow-jones-indus-avg","16":"tag-jay-powell","17":"tag-markets","18":"tag-netflix-inc","19":"tag-oracle-corp","20":"tag-sp-500-index","21":"tag-stocks","22":"tag-technology","23":"tag-wall-street"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}