The cost of insuring Oracle’s debt is rising due to its funded AI expansion

The cost of insuring Oracle’s debt is rising due to its funded AI expansion

By Yahoo Finance Video
Publication Date: 2025-12-06 13:00:00

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Wall Street is increasingly focused on a new question. How should the global AI tab actually be paid for?

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For a while, the big hyperscalers financed the expansion with tons of cash, but the reality and expected expectations are now changing.

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An ever-increasing portion of this bill is likely to come from new debt. and Oracle is already there.

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It’s borrowing money to build AI data centers and the cost of that has caused debt to skyrocket.

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This insurance is called a credit default swap, or CDS, and that’s what we’re breaking down today using stocks and conversions.

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So let’s start by breaking down the CDS you may remember from the global financial crisis.

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You can think of a credit default swap as a contract that protects an investor from a company defaulting on its debts.

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The…