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  • When are we getting CDOs with Nvidia GPUs as collateral as Nvidia envisions?
    by nyorai
  • This tracks with recent reporting that AI debt issuance fell 50% month over month in September[0]

    > Tech companies raised $23 billion in AI-related debt globally in September, less than half the amount raised in August, according to Morgan Stanley data covering public bonds and private placement transactions.

    > The decline marks a continued drop from June, when companies raised a record $113 billion for AI infrastructure including data centers and chips. In the US investment-grade market, where blue-chip tech groups borrowed around $306 billion between January and August, AI-related bond issuance stopped completely last month.

    0: https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/tech-compan...

    by CodingJeebus
  • So, is this the type of signs we should be on the lookout anticipating an impending implosion?
    by cromka
  • Major base rate fallacy.

    This is common. Selling debt is normal. If there is money to be made by selling the debt and going back to issuing more loans, they’ll try to find a buyer.

    Everyone is so primed to believe that all things related to data centers are bad that they’ll assume this is a special event. The person writing the headline knows that.

    by Aurornis
  • This is just what banks do O_o underwrite loans, then collateralize (i.e. bundle) to people who want the risk.
    by plouffy
  • I saw an article a couple of days ago on one of the popular sites (ft or Bloomberg or something), about how now is a great opportunity to purchase private company credit. Guess this is the submarine https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
    by michaeljx
  • Isn’t this a perfectly normal thing banks do with all large debt? Any bank underwriting any $40b loan was always going to syndicate it.

    Not to do so would be reckless.

    What is unusual about this is that syndications usually clear in a few weeks but this has been stuck in distribution for six months and still not closed.

    by lewdwig
  • To be fair to banks this is what they do with almost all debt their underwrite.

    They hold it to help stabilize the market for it while its being sold and then offload it once the market has been established.

    Nothing out of hte ordinary here, but to be fair the original article isnt' a financial site so they would have no real idea about how this work behind the scenes.

    This doesn't seem like a story at all given how robust this debt is trading.

    by chollida1

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