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The Jobs Report Blew Up Wall Street’s Rate-Cut Bet. Here’s the Only Stock That Still Wins.
By The Numbers
- -2.6% — S&P 500 weekly loss, closing at 7,383.74. Broke a 9-week winning streak.
- -4.7% — Nasdaq weekly loss. Chips led the selloff. Worst week of 2026.
- 172,000 — jobs added in May. Wall Street expected 80,000–85,000. Rate cuts moved further away.
- $553 billion — Oracle’s remaining performance obligations. Almost entirely AI cloud contracts, already booked.
- $1.75 trillion — SpaceX IPO valuation target. The space economy just got very real.
Last week hit Wall Street like a freight train. The S&P 500 fell 2.6%, closing at 7,383.74 and snapping a nine-week winning streak. The Nasdaq dropped 4.7%, its worst week of 2026. The culprit: a May jobs report that crushed expectations, with 172,000 new jobs added against Wall Street’s forecast of 80,000–85,000. Strong employment data pushed rate-cut hopes further out, triggering a semiconductor-led selloff that erased weeks of gains. Broadcom’s guidance disappointed. Alphabet announced an $80 billion equity raise for AI that rattled its own shareholders on dilution fears. And SpaceX filed for an IPO at a $1.75 trillion valuation. Against all this noise, one company with $553 billion in locked AI cloud contracts is set to report earnings Wednesday. That’s Oracle. And it may not care about any of it.
STOCK OF THE WEEK Oracle (ORCL)The rest of the market sold off. Oracle barely flinched. That’s because Oracle doesn’t need rate cuts or a bullish chip cycle. It has $553 billion in AI cloud contracts already on the books. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) grew revenue 84% year-over-year last quarter — the fastest pace of any major cloud platform. Wednesday evening, Oracle reports Q4 FY2026. Wall Street expects $1.96 in EPS and $19.1 billion in revenue, both up 15–20% year-over-year. Watch OCI growth and guidance. If either accelerates, this stock moves. The 30 analysts with buy ratings and price targets up to $330 are watching the same thing.
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