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The Market Wire

Monday, 2 November 2026

  1. Oracle stock slides as $20bn bond and equity sale sparks fresh AI debt fears

    Oracle stock slumped to close around 9% lower on Monday, after the cloud infrastructure group confirmed plans to raise $20 billion through new debt and equity…

  2. Apple shares fall as memory costs threaten profits

    Apple shares fell 3% in after-hours trading after the iPhone maker warned that rising memory chip costs would squeeze its profits over Christmas.

  3. Instinct blames billing glitch for WhatsApp outage, not a Meta ban

    Instinct, the invite-only personal AI agent that handles tasks like bookings and inbox management through WhatsApp and iMessage, stopped answering WhatsApp…

  4. Bitwise sets Bitcoin fair value near $197,000

    Bitwise Europe's André Dragosch has put Bitcoin's "fair value" at $197,000, pointing to global liquidity trends, a weaker dollar and growing institutional…

  5. Marvell agrees $115 billion all-stock takeover of Lumentum

    Marvell Technology, the US chip designer, has agreed to buy Lumentum Holdings, which makes lasers and optical components, in an all-stock deal valuing the…

  6. Abu Dhabi locks OpenAI into government, energy and finance

    Abu Dhabi signed four agreements with OpenAI on Monday at the ADIPEC energy conference, witnessed by Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed and OpenAI chief…

  7. Crypto traders value Anthropic at $1.9 trillion ahead of listing

    Cryptocurrency traders are betting that Anthropic, the artificial intelligence (AI) company behind the Claude chatbot, will be worth about $1.9 trillion when…

  8. Qualcomm and Nvidia race to put AI to work on factory floors

    Qualcomm is assembling chips, connectivity and acquisitions into a full-stack platform for industrial AI, according to RCR Wireless News.

  9. Chainalysis discloses breach from AI-driven cyberattack

    Chainalysis, the blockchain-analytics company whose software underpins crypto investigations for governments and financial institutions, has disclosed a data…

  10. UBS lifts AI spending forecast to $1.4 trillion despite tech sell-off

    UBS lifts AI spending forecast to $1.4 trillion despite tech sell-off

  11. Ternus faces first test as Apple chief

    John Ternus faces investors for the first time as Apple's chief executive when the iPhone maker reports quarterly results after the US market closes on Monday.

  12. Zoho pushes Analytics assistant toward autonomous decision-making

    Zoho, the privately held business software maker, is rebuilding Ask Zia, its conversational assistant inside Zoho Analytics, around a multi-agent architecture…

  13. Morgan Stanley's copyright claims lock FinTwit accounts out of X

    Wall Street's crackdown on FinTwit, the loose online community of traders, strategists and analysts who trade market commentary on X, has intensified…