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662 Billion Reasons To Worry: Moody's Raises AI Data-Center Funding Fears As Apollo Shops Huge Anthropic Debt Deal
662 Billion Reasons To Worry: Moody's Raises AI Data-Center Funding Fears As Apollo Shops Huge Anthropic Debt Deal
Unless you have lived under a rock for the last year (or month), you will know that the explosive growth of artificial intelligence is fueling a massive infrastructure buildout.
In a chart book published nearly simultaneously with Moody’s report, Apollo Global Management chief economist Torsten Slok worked to put the enormity of data center spending into perspective.
With total capital expenditure on data centers estimated at roughly $646 billion, or about 2% of U.S. GDP, Slok noted that is...
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Sep 21, 2026 / Tyler Durden
SoftBank To Sell $11 Billion In Junk Bonds At Soaring Yields To Fund OpenAI Investments
SoftBank To Sell $11 Billion In Junk Bonds At Soaring Yields To Fund OpenAI Investments
It's only appropriate that just hours after we published an extensive report looking at the trillions in debt funding the AI supercycle - which just this year stands at $568bn, of which $259bn issued in IG, followed by $256bn across Private Credit, Direct Lending, and other bilateral/non-syndicated lending (for SPVs and infrastructure finance), another $40bn for HY and $11bn for institutional loans...
... that SotBank launched what Bloomberg dubbed "one of the biggest junk bond deals ever",...
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Jul 28, 2026 / Kyle Anzalone
Only 1 in 3 Americans Support Iran War
President Donald Trump’s war against Iran has slipped to its lowest approval yet. The poll comes after the collapse of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and ceasefire. A Reuters poll released on Tuesday found that just 33% of Americans approve of the war against Iran, while over 60% disapprove of the conflict. Disapproval of the […]
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Jun 16, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Sign(s) Here, Here, And Here
Sign(s) Here, Here, And Here
By Michael Every, global strategist at Rabobank
After pricing in nearly 40 pronouncements of US victory since early April, markets have naturally embraced a US-Iran ‘deal’ now e-signed --with a thumbs up emoji?-- so all that’s left is a ceremony to mark the event on Friday. That and the details of what was signed, which are still lacking from the US. In their absence, we get more polymetis spin from both sides.
Iran is saying they got everything they wanted, and there are signs of that. Weeks...
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