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RBC Capital Markets

RBC Capital Markets is the global investment banking arm of Royal Bank of Canada, providing underwriting, advisory, and capital markets services.

Known aliases

  • RBC
  • RBC Dominion Securities Inc.
  • RBC Richardson Barr

Current stories

investConfirmed6 publishers

Britain's first tokenised gilt will be sold through a conventional six-bank syndicate

Britain's Treasury named six banks, among them Barclays, HSBC and Morgan Stanley, to underwrite DIGIT, its first digitally native gilt, due by end-Q1 2027. The choice settles who sells sovereign debt onchain well before the bond's yield can show what onchain settlement costs.

Perspective Coverage

6 publishers
Builder
Builder 27%
Operator
Operator 41%
Investor
Investor 32%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption10
Hype gap+20
Incentives55
Confidence65
leadershipConfirmed3 publishers

With a force majeure notice, Oracle hedges against Project Jupiter running late

Oracle shares fell more than 6% on Thursday after it sent a force majeure notice to Blue Owl over Project Jupiter, its New Mexico AI data center. The notice protects Oracle's cash if the site runs late and makes its 2028 date the one lenders and investors now watch.

Publishers:businessinsider.com forbes.com.au santafenewmexican.com

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 7%
Operator
Operator 40%
Investor
Investor 53%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives60
Confidence60
investOne report1 publisher

Beacon retains its departing CEO at $120,000 a month after six days' notice

Sean Gray takes over the $22.3 billion-asset Massachusetts bank a year after its merger of equals. The promised $52 million of after-tax cost savings was booked in July, and the shares still fell more than 6.7% on Monday.

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption66
Hype gap+28
Incentives72
Confidence62
investOne report1 publisher

Intel's 9% jump prices a mid-2028 wafer promise at 92 times this year's earnings

Intel closed at $104.47, roughly 92 times the $1.14 it is expected to earn this year. Of the three legs holding that price up, only the data centre line is already in the accounts. October's CPU increase is still a supply chain report.

Publishers:en.sedaily.com

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption32
Hype gap+42
Incentives68
Confidence55
scienceOne report1 publisher

A RAS inhibitor wins FDA approval in metastatic pancreatic cancer at $39,800 a month

Revolution Medicines' daraxonrasib nearly doubled median overall survival in previously treated patients. Investors sat still anyway, because the unresolved variable is now what payers will absorb.

Publishers:genengnews.com

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption34
Hype gap+16
Incentives72
Confidence61
investOne report1 publisher

Valley National pays $247M for a cheaper deposit book and ends its CRE retreat

Providence Financial is worth about 2.4% of Valley's balance sheet, so scale is not the point. The companies say the funding cost gap between them is more than 50%.

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption38
Hype gap+18
Incentives72
Confidence55
investOne report1 publisher

SpaceX prices $75bn of stock at $135 and leaves the denominator in the prospectus

555,555,555 Class A shares at $135.00 works out to $74,999,999,925. The pricing release names 23 banks and no share count, so the market-cap argument moves to the prospectus.

Publishers:ir.spacex.com

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption45
Hype gap+12
Incentives78
Confidence63
productOne report1 publisher

Alphabet reopens a market shut for a decade, and A$5.5bn buys 2% of one year's capex

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.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence54
Adoption71
Hype gap−6
Incentives62
Confidence55
productOne report1 publisher

Alphabet's Kangaroo ladder: AI capex has outgrown cash flow, so it is being termed out

Four tranches out to 20 years, weeks after $25bn of dollar bonds and an $85bn equity raise, from a company that just posted its first negative quarterly free cash flow.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption38
Hype gap+12
Incentives55
Confidence45