Oracle defused ‘the key risk going into 2026,’ BofA argues, but the market isn’t buying it

“Every morning the opening screen on my Bloomberg is what’s going on with CDS spreads on Oracle debt,” Morgan Stanley Wealth Management CIO Lisa Shalett told Fortune in October, seeming to speak for a market that was increasingly worried about the bursting of a bubble in artificial intelligence. CDS, as students of the 2008 financial crisis know, stands for “credit default swaps,” a financial instrument to hedge against giant debt loads elsewhere in the market. And the reason Shalett highlighted...