
AI cloud firm Oracle's ORCL.N shares fall 6.5% to $208.49 after bell
Co misses quarterly revenue estimates, a sign that corporate spending on its cloud services may be cooling amid broader concerns of a bubble in the artificial intelligence market
Reports Q2 total revenue of $16.06 billion compared with analysts' estimate of $16.21 billion- as per data compiled by LSEG
Co incurs a one-time $2.7 billion pre-tax gain on selling its stake in chip designer Ampere Computing
"Oracle sold Ampere because we no longer think it is strategic for us to continue designing, manufacturing and using our own chips in our cloud datacenters," Chairman Larry Ellison says
Up to last close, ORCL had risen ~33% this year