Oracle Corp. regaled Wall Street on Monday with talk about the future, enormous demand and some very large cloud-services contracts, but its stock continued a downward trend over concerns about growing costs associated with building out more data centers.

We are on schedule to double our data center capacity this calendar year,” Oracle Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison said in the earnings release. “Customer demand is a

Oracle also projected adjusted earnings of $1.61 to $1.65 per share, falling short of the $1.79 per share that analysts had anticipated. Beyond the impact of earnings, this is a concerning period for the broader markets,