By Khadija Saeed
Publication Date: 2025-12-31 17:53:00
NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 12:42 pm ET – Regular Session
- Oracle shares fell slightly in midday trading, tracking weaker U.S. technology.
- New headlines on OpenAI funding drew attention to spending on AI infrastructure.
- A donation and sale of shares by an Oracle executive was disclosed in a regulatory filing.
Oracle Corp (ORCL) shares fell 0.3% to $196.60 in midday New York trading on Wednesday, after closing at $197.21 in the previous session. The stock has traded between $195.08 and $197.49 so far in the regular session.
The weakness was accompanied by a slight decline in U.S. technology stocks, with the Nasdaq 100-tracker Invesco QQQ and the Technology Select Sector SPDR each down about 0.3%.
The divergence is significant because Oracle’s valuation is closely tied to investor confidence in AI-driven cloud growth and the cost of expanding data center capacity. According to Reuters, attention intensified after Oracle’s latest quarterly outlook missed Wall Street estimates and pointed to pressure from higher spending. Reuters
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