The Vickers Top Buyers & Sellers is a daily report that identifies the five companies the largest insider purchase transactions based on the dollar value of the transactions as well as the five companies the largest insider sales transactions based on the dollar value of the transactions.

Oracle provides database technology and enterprise resource planning, or ERP, software to enterprises around the world. Founded in 1977, Oracle pioneered the first commercial SQL-based relational database management system. Today, Oracle has more than 400,000 customers in 175 countries.

U.S. stocks rose on Thursday ahead of the April jobs report due out on Friday. Apple (AAPL) rose 6% after hours when it announced a $110 billion stock buyback plan. The two-year Treasury yield fell to 4.889% while the 10-year yield was down to 4.58%. The Dow was up 0.9%, the S&P 500 gained 0.9% and the Nasdaq rose 1.5%. Crude oil traded above $79 per barrel and gold rose $3 to $2313 per ounce.

Paramount Global is the rebranded recombination of CBS and Viacom that has created a media conglomerate with global scale. CBS contributed Showtime in addition to its television assets--the CBS television network, 28 local TV stations, and 50% of CW, a joint venture between CBS and WarnerMedia. Viacom brought several leading cable network properties, including Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, Comedy Central, VH1, CMT, and Paramount. Paramount Pictures produces original motion pictures and owns a library of 2,500 films, including the Mission: Impossible and Transformers series. Paramount operates a number of streaming services, most notably Paramount+ and Pluto TV.