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Public Service Company of New Mexico, the state’s largest utility, and Blackstone Infrastructure, the company looking to purchase PNM, more than doubled the amount of rate credits they will provide to ratepayers if the deal closes. The proposed $11.5 billion merger between the state’s largest electric utility and a unit of one of the world’s largest private equity firms, Blackstone Inc., faced ...

Blackstone (NYSE:BX) CFO Michael Chae said the firm sees a constructive backdrop for corporate profits, investment deployment and fundraising, citing accelerating earnings growth, expanding margins and demand for capital across infrastructure, private credit and private wealth markets. Speaking at

Jersey Mike’s reports $208 million in corporate revenue for the fiscal second quarter, in line with analysts’ expectations.

Nadeem Meghji’s departure adds to the list of real-estate executives departing Blackstone over the past three years.

Retail investors in Blackstone’s flagship private-credit fund continue to head for the exits. Blackstone Private Credit Fund, the largest private-credit fund pitched at individual investors, received redemption requests totaling $4.3 billion in its latest quarter, accounting for about 10% of shares outstanding. It experienced another quarter of net outflows, losing about 3% of its net asset value.

All three major US stock indexes were up in late-morning trading Thursday, while the rise in Treasur

Waymo is in the final stages of talks to raise debt for the first time, tapping lenders including Pacific Investment Management Co. for more than $3 billion as it looks to become the leading robotaxi company globally.

Blackstone (BX) is preparing to list hotel group Hotel Investment Partners, or HIP, in Spain, CincoD

Private-equity firms are known for slashing costs, overhauling businesses and boosting revenue, and now have a new tool for carrying out that playbook. Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman have formed a roughly 160-person team of artificial-intelligence experts with Anthropic to deploy at businesses, starting with their own portfolio companies. The push is part of a $1.5 billion joint venture between the AI giant and Wall Street firms, which also includes Apollo General Atlantic and Goldman Sachs among the backers.

Broadcom is in talks with a group of ‌lenders to raise more than $60 ‌billion in debt for an AI chip financing ​deal that will benefit Anthropic and other companies, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the ‌matter. The financing ⁠could include a roughly $30 billion junior debt tranche, and Broadcom ⁠would guarantee part of the senior-secured tranche possibly ranging from about $60 ​billion to $70 ​billion, the report ​said. Blackstone and Apollo Global Management are in talks with ‌Broadcom to participate ​in the financing, following ​a partnership ​the three companies struck ‌in June, the report added.

Broadcom Inc. is in talks with a group of lenders to raise more than $60 billion in debt for an AI chip financing deal that will benefit Anthropic PBC and other companies, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

When some of Wall Street’s most prominent CEOs recently appeared on TV with Nvidia Corp.’s Jensen Huang, touting their $500 billion pact to finance AI chips, one participant stood out.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Blackstone Inc. and Apollo Global Management Inc. had been working tirelessly for months to draw up debt deals that would help developers of artificial intelligence systems pay for chips from Nvidia Corp.

Databricks Inc. has secured $5 billion in funding at a valuation of $190 billion, the second round of financing this year for a fast-growing software firm that competes with Snowflake Inc. and Alphabet Inc.

The race to build artificial-intelligence infrastructure is fueling demand for new warehouses. Warehouse developer and operator Link Logistics said 15% of new leasing so far this year is tied to the data-center buildout, up sharply from a year earlier. Luke Petherbridge, chief executive of the Blackstone-owned company, said tenants include companies assembling and supplying components such as turbines, generators and switchgear.

(Bloomberg) -- Nvidia Corp.’s commitments to backstop the artificial intelligence boom seemed to be swelling by the day. There was the reported $250 billion to help kickstart a massive data center for OpenAI in Ohio, the latest in a string of big financings it was involved with. Most Read from BloombergFive Takeaways From Zuckerberg’s 6,500-Word Manifesto on AIChina Unleashes $28 Trillion Capital Markets to Challenge US in AINvidia Taps Wall Street for $500 Billion Funding CommitmentApple’s Glas

(Bloomberg) -- Bond traders dialed back measures of credit risk associated with Nvidia Corp. on Tuesday after the company said it would limit its exposure in a $500 billion plan to finance the type of artificial-intelligence investments that are driving demand for its computer chips. Most Read from BloombergFive Takeaways From Zuckerberg’s 6,500-Word Manifesto on AIChina Unleashes $28 Trillion Capital Markets to Challenge US in AINvidia Taps Wall Street for $500 Billion Funding CommitmentTrump M

Nvidia reached a deal with some of Wall Street’s largest firms to help raise $500 billion to fund the AI infrastructure build-out. Apollo Global Management Blackstone BlackRock Brookfield Asset Management Goldman Sachs and KKR agreed to help Nvidia assemble financing in a deal that could be announced as soon as Monday, people familiar with the matter said. Spending commitments on data centers and other AI infrastructure have reached eye-popping levels, and Wall Street’s banks and investment firms have been rushing to finance the boom in increasingly creative ways.

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Moby summary of PPL Corporation's Q2 2026 earnings call

BENGALURU, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Blackstone-owned AGS Health on Friday filed updated draft papers for a 48-billion-rupee ($504 million) initial public offering in India, nearly two months after securing

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(Bloomberg) -- AI data center company Firmus raised $2 billion in a funding round backed by Coatue Management, Nvidia Corp., Blackstone Inc. vehicles and Jane Street, the company said. Most Read from BloombergIran Says Agreement on Hormuz Shipping Reached With OmanOpenAI’s New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost Over $300Iran Wants to Bar US, Israeli Ships From Hormuz in Peace AccordIshbia’s Mortgage Firm Suffers Record Drop on Dividend HaltWhy Do Data Centers Use So Much Fresh Water?The i

(Bloomberg) -- Blackstone Inc. has held early discussions with investors to gauge interest in a second mega debt package to finance Anthropic PBC’s use of chips from Alphabet Inc.’s Google.Most Read from BloombergBeer Dynasty Families Sell €731 Million Stake in AB InBevTaco Bell Met With Michigan on Parasite Weeks Before RecallChina’s AI Blitz Creates ‘Death Zone’ for Rival US Model MakersApple’s New CEO Taps Retired Hardware Executive for Management TeamMamdani Dismisses Business Leaders Advisi

(Bloomberg) -- Volta Infra Holdings Ltd., a new artificial intelligence cloud company, has raised $300 million in venture funding and secured an additional $5 billion worth of financing to help a wider mix of technology companies gain access to costly AI chips. The funding, set to be announced Tuesday, values Volta at $2.4 billion, and was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Altimeter Capital. Nvidia Corp. and Michael Dell also participated. Azora, the asset-management firm providing the financing

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Recent earnings reports by the so-called hyperscalers have driven expectations even higher for their collective AI spending plans. Goldman Sachs credit strategists estimate that approximately $400 billion in highly rated investment-grade bonds could be issued directly by hyperscalers globally in 2027. A group of investment-grade hyperscalers tracked by Barclays credit strategists includes Alphabet Amazon.com Meta Platforms Microsoft Oracle and SpaceX. The spread offered by these companies’ bonds over benchmark Treasurys has widened by almost a quarter percentage point over the past month through July 30, according to tracking by Barclays.

Wall Street finally got a taste of Blackstone-backed Jersey Mike’s, yet the first bite looked hesitant. What’s next for JMKE?

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The sandwich chain is going public on Thursday. It will test the appetite of investors after blockbuster debuts like Elon Musk’s SpaceX.