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NYSE:ORCL News 30 June 2025 - 7 October 2025

Oracle’s ‘Truly Awesome’ AI Cloud Quarter Sends Stock Soaring 36%, Making Ellison World’s Richest

Oracle’s AI Cloud Gamble Drives Soaring Stock – Can ORCL Join the Trillion-Dollar Club?

Stock Performance: Skyrocketing on AI Hype Oracle’s share price has been on a tear in 2025, handily beating the broader market and most tech peers. Riding a wave of AI optimism, ORCL is up roughly 70% year-to-date (as of early October)ts2.tech. This surge far outpaces the ~16–25% gains of the average tech sector – and even leaves cloud heavyweights like Microsoft (+25% YTD), Alphabet (+32%), and Amazon (flat) in the dustfinviz.com. The rally culminated in a stunning spike on September 10, 2025, when Oracle’s stock exploded by over 36% in a single sessionreuters.com. Shares hit an intraday high around $345.69 – an
7 October 2025
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Oracle’s ‘Truly Awesome’ AI Cloud Quarter Sends Stock Soaring 36%, Making Ellison World’s Richest

Oracle’s $300B AI Cloud Gamble – Can ORCL Stock Become the Next $1 Trillion Tech Titan?

Recent Stock Performance and Valuation Metrics Oracle’s stock has been on a tear in 2025, dramatically outpacing the broader market thanks to AI cloud enthusiasm. Shares started the year around the $170s and climbed into the high $200s by early October, after an especially explosive move in September. The catalyst was Oracle’s Fiscal Q1 2026 earnings release on Sept. 9, 2025, which revealed an “astonishing” influx of cloud business. Oracle’s remaining performance obligations (RPO) – a backlog of contracted future revenue – ballooned to $455 billion, up 359% from a year priorts2.tech. This implied Oracle had secured hundreds of billions in
6 October 2025
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Oracle’s ‘Truly Awesome’ AI Cloud Quarter Sends Stock Soaring 36%, Making Ellison World’s Richest

Oracle’s $300 Billion AI Cloud Bombshell Sends ORCL Stock Soaring – What’s Next?

Oracle Stock Overview and Outlook as of September 25, 2025 Stock Performance (As of Sept 25, 2025) Oracle’s stock has been on a tear in 2025, massively outperforming the broader market. Shares started the year around $167 morningstar.com and climbed relentlessly on optimism around the company’s cloud and AI initiatives. By early September, ORCL nearly doubled in price – a year-to-date gain of over 85% reuters.com – making it one of the top performers in the S&P 500 and even outgaining high-flying peers like Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia. On September 10, the stock hit an all-time closing high of $328.33
25 September 2025
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Oracle’s ‘Truly Awesome’ AI Cloud Quarter Sends Stock Soaring 36%, Making Ellison World’s Richest

Oracle’s Massive $20B Meta Cloud Deal Shakes Up the AI Cloud Wars

Background: Oracle’s Cloud Business Transformation Oracle Corporation built its empire on database software, but it came late to the cloud computing market. Through the 2010s, Oracle struggled for relevance as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud grabbed a combined 65%+ share of the cloud market reuters.com. Oracle was often dismissed as a “legacy” player, with co-founder Larry Ellison famously deriding cloud computing as “gibberish” in its early days qz.com. Over the past few years, however, Oracle has executed a striking cloud reinvention focused on high-performance infrastructure and strategic partnerships. Instead of trying to beat the incumbents at their
20 September 2025
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The AI Titans of 2025: Inside the Power Index Rankings and Global Race for AI Dominance

The AI Titans of 2025: Inside the Power Index Rankings and Global Race for AI Dominance

About the 2025 AI Power Index – Methodology and Significance Observer’s 2025 A.I. Power Index is a curated ranking of the 100 most influential individuals steering the future of artificial intelligence. According to the Observer, the list spans “CEOs, researchers, policymakers to investors shaping the future of artificial intelligence” Observer. Unlike lists that focus solely on company metrics or academic citations, the Power Index takes a broad view of “power” in AI, blending technical impact with business and policy influence. Selections were made by the Observer’s editorial team (with input from industry experts and even public nominations via email) to
19 September 2025
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The $300B Bet: How Oracle Became AI’s Dark-Horse Supercloud

You Won’t Believe the $300 Billion AI Deal Shaking Silicon Valley 🚀

Is the Oracle-OpenAI-Nvidia Deal Fueling a New AI Bubble? The Oracle–OpenAI–Nvidia partnership is unprecedented in scale – a $300 billion bet to build next-generation AI supercomputers. It has captivated investors, but also sparked debate over whether the AI industry is entering bubble territory. Inside the $300 Billion AI Mega-Deal OpenAI 🤝 Oracle – a 5-Year, $300B Commitment: In September 2025, OpenAI and Oracle revealed a five-year cloud computing agreement worth $300 billion. The news caught markets off-guard and instantly became one of the largest tech deals ever inked. OpenAI – the firm behind ChatGPT – is essentially pre-booking massive computing power from Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure
19 September 2025
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Oracle’s ‘Truly Awesome’ AI Cloud Quarter Sends Stock Soaring 36%, Making Ellison World’s Richest

From Legacy to AI Leviathan: Inside Oracle’s Unlikely Run

Oracle’s Q1 FY2025: Cloud Growth Sets the Stage for an AI Leap Oracle’s transformation from enterprise software stalwart to cloud contender began to show tangible results in fiscal Q1 2025. In that quarter (ended August 2024), Oracle reported $13.3 billion in revenue, up 7% year-on-year, fueled by strong cloud uptake stocktitan.net. Cloud services revenue grew 21% to $5.6 billion stocktitan.net, with Oracle’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (OCI) business up 45% and its Fusion and NetSuite cloud applications each growing ~16–20% stocktitan.net. Perhaps most telling, Oracle’s remaining performance obligations – essentially its contracted backlog – reached $99 billion, up 53% from the prior year stocktitan.net. This was
14 September 2025
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AI Stock Frenzy: Oracle’s Cloud Coup, Record Highs, and Bold $300B Deals Fuel Market Rally

AI Stock Frenzy: Oracle’s Cloud Coup, Record Highs, and Bold $300B Deals Fuel Market Rally

Key Facts Market Overview – Record Highs on AI Euphoria Wall Street’s major indexes roared to new heights in mid-week trading as AI-driven optimism swept the market. On September 10, the S&P 500 climbed 0.3% to a record 6,532.04, and the Nasdaq Composite edged to its third straight record high close reuters.com. Investors were energized by a potent mix of cooling inflation data and blockbuster news from the tech sector – especially Oracle’s stunning rally on AI cloud prospects reuters.com. “The fundamentals remain very strong in the equity markets… but valuations are extended at this point and serve as some
11 September 2025
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Google Gemini’s August 2025 Revolution: AI Mode Goes Global, Cars Talk Back, and More

Google Gemini’s August 2025 Revolution: AI Mode Goes Global, Cars Talk Back, and More

AI Mode in Search expanded to 180 countries in August 2025, powered by Gemini 2.5 with AI Overviews and sign-in free for teens. Volvo EX90 demo at Google I/O 2025 showed Gemini handling in-car voice tasks, with Gemini Live enabling free-form conversations and real-time translation across 40+ languages. Wear OS 6 introduced the Gemini assistant, and Chrome began a preview of Gemini AI for Pro and Ultra subscribers. Gemini CLI was open-sourced in late June 2025, giving free access to Gemini 2.5 Pro via CLI with a 1-million-token context window and up to 60 requests per minute (1,000 per day).
21 August 2025
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Global HCM Software Market Update (June–July 2025) – Key Trends, News & Forecasts

Global HCM Software Market Update (June–July 2025) – Key Trends, News & Forecasts

The global HR/HCM and payroll software market is projected to grow from about $35.3 billion in 2024 to $57.8 billion in 2029 and reach $91.7 billion by 2034, a roughly 10% annual growth rate. North America accounts for 36% of market revenue, while Asia-Pacific is the fastest-growing region with a forecast around 12% CAGR. The SMB/SME segment is expected to expand about 13% annually through 2029, outpacing large-enterprise growth. The market remains highly fragmented, with the top 10 vendors capturing only about 10% of global revenue in 2023, including Oracle, SAP, ADP, Sage, Paychex, UKG, and Paycom at roughly 1–2%
10 July 2025
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Cloud Computing and XaaS Developments (May–June 2025)

Cloud Computing and XaaS Developments (May–June 2025)

In May 2025, Salesforce announced a definitive agreement to acquire data management firm Informatica for $8 billion. In May 2025, Microsoft announced a partnership with xAI to host Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini on Azure via the Azure AI Foundry service. On May 22, 2025, Red Hat and AMD announced an expanded collaboration to optimize AI workloads in hybrid cloud environments. On May 9, 2025, IBM announced a cloud partnership with Oracle to run IBM’s watsonx AI tools on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). On May 15, 2025, Kyndryl and Microsoft expanded distributed cloud services to enhance hybrid, multicloud, and
30 June 2025
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Stock Market Today

AMD stock bounces 8% after brutal midweek slide — what investors watch before Monday

AMD stock bounces 8% after brutal midweek slide — what investors watch before Monday

8 February 2026
AMD shares jumped 8.28% to $208.44 Friday, rebounding after steep losses earlier in the week. Chip stocks rallied as investors bet on continued AI data center spending by major tech firms. Nvidia rose 7.8%, Broadcom gained 7.1%, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index closed up 5.7%. Markets now await macroeconomic data and Nvidia’s late-February results.
Intel stock price jumps to $50: China CPU delays and SambaNova funding set up week ahead

Intel stock price jumps to $50: China CPU delays and SambaNova funding set up week ahead

8 February 2026
Intel shares rose 4.9% to $50.59 Friday, tracking a 5.7% jump in the PHLX semiconductor index as investors bet on AI-driven data-center spending. Reuters reported Intel and AMD warned Chinese customers of tighter server CPU supply, pushing Intel’s China prices up over 10%. Intel expects supply to improve in Q2. After the bell, Reuters said Intel plans to invest about $100 million in AI chip startup SambaNova Systems.
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