Oracle Credit Protection Hits Fresh High on AI Bubble Fear

The cost of protecting Oracle’s debt against default reached a fresh multi-year high on Monday amid investor scrutiny of the debt spree to finance artificial intelligence investments. The price of five-year credit default swaps on the company’s debt, which increases as worries grow, rose to about 1.19 percentage point a year early Monday, according to ICE Data Services. That’s the highest since Oct. 2022, and amounts to around $119,000 for every $10 million of principal protected. Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Technology Credit Analyst Robert Schiffman joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss. He speaks with Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. (Source: Bloomberg)