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Market where companies raise money by selling debt to investors, priced as a spread over government yields; spans investment-grade and high-yield issuers.
AI-linked corporate debt issuance reached about $450-500B in the first nine months of 2026, more than double prior years' pace, cryptobriefing reported. Goldman Sachs projects hyperscaler issuance could run toward $1T in 2027, tapping pension funds and insurers that also buy Treasuries.
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Average daily securities settlements at the Korea Securities Depository fell 16.5% to 35.4 trillion won in the third quarter. By our sums, corporate bonds maturing within a year are 57% of the 7 trillion won drop and stocks 18%.
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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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SpaceX plans $30 billion of investment-grade bonds and $10 billion of bank loans to buy Nvidia chips, Reuters reported, citing sources. Debt spares its shareholders dilution but puts AI buyers in the same bond market as governments funding deficits.
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The argument treats bond demand as a fixed pool, so if AI issuers can raise $1.7 trillion at barely wider spreads, the clearing price has to move somewhere, and Yardeni says it moved to the Treasury's own cost of funds.
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