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Investment-grade issuance mechanics: tranche structure, spreads versus Treasuries, order-book demand and bookrunners.
Broadcom seeks $50 billion in financing and SpaceX $40 billion in bonds and loans to buy AI chips, the Wall Street Journal and others reported. The borrowing reaches a bond market where 10-year Treasury yields sit within a few basis points of a 24-year high.
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SEBI and the Reserve Bank of India now have 10.25 billion rupees of corporate debt live on a permissioned ledger settled in wholesale digital rupees, with the depositories holding the private keys and 23 investors holding the bonds.
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Demat 2.0 settled REC, L&T and IIFL paper against the wholesale digital rupee on the day of bidding, with the same ISINs, coupons and ratings the bonds would have carried anyway.
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The largest corporate bond ever sold in Australia raised about US$3.9bn for Alphabet. Its 2026 capital expenditure guidance is between $195bn and $205bn.
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The largest bond sale in AMD's history lands months after it committed up to $5bn to Anthropic and 2GW of MI450s. AMD says the proceeds are for general purposes.
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