CME Group Dips After Outage; Oracle Declines; Sandisk Rallies

On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Shares of CME Group (CME) dipped in the premarket session after trading of futures and options on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange was halted by a data-center fault, causing hours of disruption to markets across equities, foreign exchange, bonds and commodities. The malfunction was caused by cooling system problems at a data center in the Chicago area, according to facility operator CyrusOne. Engineering teams have restarted several chillers and deployed temporary cooling equipment, a spokesperson said, without giving a time for the resumption of normal operations.
- Shares of Oracle (ORCL) declined in early trading after Morgan Stanley warned a gauge of risk on Oracle Corp.’s debt reached a three-year high in November, and things are only going to get worse in 2026 unless the database giant is able to assuage investor anxiety about a massive artificial intelligence spending spree. A funding gap, swelling balance sheet and obsolescence risk are just some of the hazards Oracle is facing, according to Lindsay Tyler and David Hamburger, credit analysts at the brokerage. The cost of insuring Oracle Corp.’s debt against default over the next five years rose to 1.25 percentage point a year on Tuesday, according to ICE Data Services.
- Shares of Sandisk (SNDK) rallied ahead of the US market open on reports Japan and the US are considering building a NAND flash memory plant in the US through a public-private partnership with Kioxia Holdings and SanDisk seen as the main investors. According to Nikkan Kogyo, challenges to plan including disagreements over capital structure and management control, as well as potential Chinese regulatory issues.

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