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The $105 Billion AI Bet: Is Oracle’s Bond Market Stress a Systemic Risk?

Oracle’s credit risk has sharply repriced, with its 5-year CDS spiking to the highest level since 2009—roughly tripling from mid-year—as investors hedge a debt-funded AI expansion with uncertain payback. Its balance sheet now resembles a leveraged AI infrastructure project, carrying about $105B in total debt and roughly $95B in U.S. bonds, making it the largest non-bank issuer in major indices; leverage is above 4× debt/EBITDA, and levered free cash flow is negative as capex surges. Rating agencies still keep Oracle investment grade but have moved outlooks to Negative, citing massive AI cloud commitments and sustained negative free cash flow. Across the AI complex, more than $200B in related bond issuance has come to market as hyperscalers and data-center operators raise capital aggressively. Systemic risk is creeping higher, but Oracle itself is viewed as a stress indicator—not a systemic trigger—in the emerging AI credit web.
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Salesforce After Q3 FY26 Earnings: High-Margin AI Platform, Solid Growth

Salesforce delivered a quarter that was operationally excellent but not growth-explosive: Revenue around $10.3B, growing high single digits year-on-year. Non-GAAP operating margin in the mid-30s, at or near record levels. Free cash flow above $2B for the quarter, with healthy double-digit growth. AI stack (Agentforce, Data Cloud, Einstein) now represents meaningful, recurring ARR, scaling quickly off a small base. Guidance frames high-single-digit to low-double-digit top-line growth with mid-30s non-GAAP margin for the full year. The equity story is shifting from “hyper-growth CRM pioneer” to “AI-enhanced, cash-rich enterprise platform compounder.”
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The Magnificent 7 vs. The AI Infrastructure Play

The Magnificent 7 are expensive, cash-burning AI believers trading at 31-40x free cash flow while promising returns that might not materialize. A better bet is the companies selling them the shovels - the AI Infrastructure Compounders 7 (AIC-7), who are generating cash today while the hyperscalers burn through $417 billion this year alone.
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Snowflake: The Data Cloud’s AI Metamorphosis

Snowflake's transformation from cloud data warehouse to AI platform is happening faster than most investors realize. With 5,200+ customers actively using AI weekly and Cortex driving 15-35% customer expansion, the company has moved beyond PowerPoint promises to actual revenue impact. But success breeds competition - Databricks is fighting back with 50/50 win rates in direct battles, hyperscalers are commoditizing data platforms, and customer FinOps teams are starting to scrutinize consumption-based pricing.
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The Inconvenient Truth About US Stock Market Valuations

The S&P 500's meteoric 25% rise since April might feel like vindication for bulls, but beneath the surface lies a dangerous cocktail of extreme concentration, unsustainable valuations, and mounting macro headwinds that spell trouble ahead. While corporate earnings remain resilient and AI infrastructure spending provides near-term support, extreme market concentration (top 10 companies = 39% of S&P 500), stretched valuations (P/E of 26.6x vs 20-year average of 16.2x), and mounting macro headwinds create conditions ripe for a significant correction.
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Adobe Inc – Undervalued & Overperforming, Riding AI into Record Results & Rosy Outlooks

Adobe is fundamentally reshaping the creative economy with AI at the core of its platform, not as a gimmick, but as a monetizable, enterprise-grade engine. While the market questions AI payoffs, Adobe is already delivering: over $125M in AI-first ARR, 24B assets generated via Firefly, and deep integrations that boost stickiness and pricing power.
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ZoomInfo (ZI) – Can the B2B Data King Hold Its Crown

ZoomInfo continues to lead the business-to-business (B2B) data intelligence landscape, prized for its data accuracy, Salesforce integration, and sales development representative (SDR) workflow tools. However, competitors are catching up fast, especially in user experience and pricing, while recent declines in mobile number accuracy threaten ZoomInfo’s most important value proposition.