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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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Jun 30, 2026 / Tyler Durden
The New Socialists: Elite, Ungrateful, And Toxic As Ever
The New Socialists: Elite, Ungrateful, And Toxic As Ever
Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness,
Win some blue-state and blue-city races, and the cocky new socialist Jacobins believe that they have either already taken over the Democratic Party or will soon absorb it. And in reaction to these new swarms, an increasingly terrified and ossified old Democrat guard either limps away from the hive or invites them in to take over more.
It is fascinating but ultimately depressing to watch old-style Democrats say or do anything to avoid the new...
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Feb 19, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Blue Owl Plunges After Halting Redemptions On Private Credit Retail Fund
Blue Owl Plunges After Halting Redemptions On Private Credit Retail Fund
Things are getting from bad to worse for Private Credit giant Blue Owl Capital.
The last time we looked at the firm's precarious liquidity situation about a month ago, we found that the Blue Owl BDC would allow for 17% redemptions as investors, burned by both the tumbling stock price and the company's massive exposure to ticking private credit time bombs, were storming for the exit.
Blue Owl BDC Allows for 17% Redemptions as Investors Storm Exit: BBG
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) January...
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May 6, 2026 / Tyler Durden
'Still So Early On This Journey': Morgan Stanley Launches Lower-Cost Crypto Trading
'Still So Early On This Journey': Morgan Stanley Launches Lower-Cost Crypto Trading
Just a week after Amy Oldenburg, Morgan Stanley’s head of digital assets, spent the better part of an hour making a case for bitcoin that few clients have heard in full (a gap she says is the industry’s most urgent problem), the bank announces the launch of crypto trading on E*Trade, charging 50bps in a pilot that undercuts rivals like Coinbase, Robinhood, and Charles Schwab.
CoinDesk reports that Morgan Stanley’s Head of Wealth Management, Jed Finn, said the initiative goes beyond...
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