Data center deals hit record $61 billion in 2025 as AI valuation risks and funding concerns grip investors

Data center deals hit record  billion in 2025 as AI valuation risks and funding concerns grip investors

Global data centers dealmaking surged to hit another record high this year, driven by a rush to build out the infrastructure required for energy-intensive AI workloads. That surge came even as investors grew increasingly wary of inflated artificial intelligence valuations and the financing underpinning the rapid expansion of data centers. Global stocks sold off in … Read more

TikTok signs agreement to create new U.S. joint venture, memo says

TikTok signs agreement to create new U.S. joint venture, memo says

Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew told employees on Thursday that the company’s U.S. operations will be housed in a new joint venture. The entity is named TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, according to a memo sent by Chew and obtained by CNBC. As part of the joint venture, … Read more

S&P 500 rises on cooler-than-expected inflation data, strong Micron earnings: Live updates

S&P 500 rises on cooler-than-expected inflation data, strong Micron earnings: Live updates

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., Dec. 17, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The S&P 500 was on pace to snap a four-day slide on Thursday, boosted by lighter-than-expected inflation data that brightened the outlook for lower interest rates in 2026 and blowout guidance from … Read more

AI infrastructure selloff continues on Wall Street as Broadcom, Oracle shares slide

AI infrastructure selloff continues on Wall Street as Broadcom, Oracle shares slide

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan. Lucas Jackson | Reuters In at least one corner of the artificial intelligence market, sentiment has turned decidedly negative. Broadcom, CoreWeave and Oracle, three companies intimately tied to the AI infrastructure buildout, all had another rough day on Wall Street on Monday after selling off sharply last week. While the three … Read more

Broadcom and Costco’s rich valuations leave little room for error as battleground stocks

Broadcom and Costco’s rich valuations leave little room for error as battleground stocks

Sometimes the stakes are so high, the degree of difficulty so immense, that it simply may be too hard to game. When that’s the case, no amount of formal research will help you fathom the stock implications. Yet, you have inherited the issues and they must be dealt with — or you are too at … Read more

Here are 4 major moments that drove the stock market last week

Here are 4 major moments that drove the stock market last week

The S & P 500 ran into a brick wall Friday and finished the week lower, just one day after closing at a record high. The rotation out of tech stocks, which supported the Dow , was on full display. The across-the-board rally on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the third … Read more

Broadcom tumbles 11% despite blockbuster earnings as ‘AI angst’ weighs on Oracle, Nvidia

AI infrastructure selloff continues on Wall Street as Broadcom, Oracle shares slide

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan. Lucas Jackson | Reuters Broadcom’s quarterly results and guidance sailed past Wall Street estimates. It didn’t matter. The chipmaker’s shares plummeted 11% on Friday, their worst day since January, as investors ran for the exits on the artificial intelligence trade. Oracle dropped 4.5% a day after plunging 10% following its earnings … Read more

Oracle says there have been ‘no delays’ in OpenAI arrangement after stock slide

Oracle says there have been ‘no delays’ in OpenAI arrangement after stock slide

Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk appears on a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, on Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oracle on Friday pushed back against a report that said the company will complete data centers for OpenAI, one of its major customers, in 2028, rather … Read more

A big week of economic data is next for a stock market in the throes of a major rotation

A big week of economic data is next for a stock market in the throes of a major rotation

The stock market will have to get through a big week of economic data ahead, as it undergoes a major rotation that could drive the market toward a year-end rally. The week ahead is stacked with big reports — including jobs and inflation data — that have been delayed because of the government shutdown. November … Read more

Oracle’s lease commitments jump by almost 150% as company builds out to meet AI demand

Oracle’s lease commitments jump by almost 150% as company builds out to meet AI demand

Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, center, speaks on a media tour of the Stargate data center in Abilene, Texas, on Sept. 23, 2025. Stargate is a collaboration of OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank, with promotional support from President Donald Trump, to build data centers and other infrastructure for artificial intelligence throughout the US. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg … Read more