‼️ 🧠 Oracle’s fiscal first-quarter revenue rose nearly 30% year over year to $19.35 billion, while adjusted EPS increased 30% to $1.92. Cloud revenue surged 62% to $11.61 billion, led by a 121% increase in cloud-infrastructure revenue, as the company added 850 megawatts of data-centre capacity during the quarter.
‼️ BREAKING: August CPI inflation comes in at 3.4%, in-line with expectations of 3.4% Core CPI inflation falls to 2.4%, also in-line with expectations of 2.4%. Month-over-month CPI inflation rose +0.4%, the biggest increase since May 2026.
🛢️ BREAKING: Diesel prices rose above $6 a gallon for the first time ever, raising the risk of further energy-driven inflation just ahead of peak demand season for the fuel.
‼️ 🇬🇧 FTSE 100 is on track for its worst weekly drop since April. The MSCI All Country World Index is off by 1.5% for the week. The biggest drag has been from heavyweight names like HSBC, Unilever and Rolls-Royce. But for the week, 90 stocks are down, so it’s broad weakness. Unsurprisingly, the only names to have fared well are Shell and BP, boosted by the jump in oil prices.
‼️ 🧠 Micron will award Taiwan engineers a $32,000 cash bonus plus equity, with all Taiwan staff receiving equity in annual merit grants. The company employs about 15,000 people on the island, a key manufacturing hub, and has invested more than T$1.6 trillion in Taiwan.