Oracle stock slips as OpenAI funding update and insider sale filing keep AI spend in focus
NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 12:42 ET — Regular session Oracle Corp (ORCL) shares were down 0.3% at $196.60 in midday New York trading on Wednesday, after closing at $197.21 in the prior session. The stock traded between $195.08 and $197.49 so far in the regular session. The weakness matched a modest pullback in U.S. technology shares, with the Nasdaq 100-tracking Invesco QQQ and the Technology Select Sector SPDR both down about 0.3%. The drift matters because Oracle’s valuation has been tied closely to investor confidence in AI-driven cloud growth and the cost of building out data-center capacity. Scrutiny rose