Four Raises in One Week. The First One Is Already Below Its Placement Price
Hello. Last friday's US session was a quiet one — $Invesco QQQ(QQQ)$ closed up 0.35 per cent, $SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust(SPY)$ 0.41 per cent and the Dow 0.98 per cent — though the week as a whole still finished lower. What mattered happened after the close. On 23 August $BABA-W(09988)$ announced and priced a placement of new shares worth HK$80 billion, about US$10.2 billion, sold at an 8.4 per cent discount, with the net proceeds going into full-stack AI infrastructure. That is the fourth such raise in the same week. Intel sold US$20 billion of stock at US$95 a share;
$Oracle(ORCL)$ $Oracle (ORCL) +3.10% Bounce Off Support, Cloud & AI Momentum Building Toward $177 Resistance Latest Close Data 📊 ORCL closed at $146.47 on Aug 24, 2026, up +3.10% (+$4.40) from yesterday's $142.07. The stock sits 57.6% below its 52-week high of $345.72, but has rebounded +27.9% from the 52-week low of $114.50. After-hours price: $145.37. Core Market Drivers 📰 Oracle's AI infrastructure narrative is regaining traction after July's selloff. The expanded Google Cloud Gemini partnership announced July 30 continues to support OCI's multi-cloud AI positioning. Broader cloud capex sentiment improved after CoreWeave's strong earnings and guidance. Technical Analysis 📈 Volume: 19.64M shares traded, Volume Ratio 0.95 — slightly below ave