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QTS (Project Magnolia) has wrapped its $3.25 billion term loan B, according to sources. The seven-year term loan priced at S+225, with a 0% floor and an OID of 99.5, at the tight end of price talk at launch. JPMorgan is the administrative agent on the deal, and led a bookrunner group that included Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo. The deal was upsized twice, with the facility originally sized at $1 billion. Proceeds will be used to repay existing debt under construction credit facilities, fund a d

Earlier this week, Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman and a consortium of global investors formally launched Ode with Anthropic, an AI services company built on Fractional AI’s team and Anthropic’s frontier models to help enterprises deploy advanced AI systems. In parallel, Blackstone broadened its alternatives footprint in Asia-Pacific by hiring Ami Momaya as its first dedicated infrastructure head for India, marking the launch of its infrastructure platform in the country. We’ll now...

AI infrastructure financing appears to be shifting toward leveraged loans as QTS taps strong investor demand.

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Blackstone Inc. (BX) has an impressive earnings surprise history and currently possesses the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely beat in its next quarterly report.

Blackstone Inc. (BX) possesses the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.

Blackstone (NYSE:BX) is one of the best dividend stocks to invest in, according to Jim Simons’ Renaissance Technologies. On July 6, Blackstone (NYSE:BX) announced that funds managed by Blackstone Energy Transition Partners have reached an agreement to acquire Dresser Utility Solutions. With the acquisition, the unit gains access to a premier provider of mission-critical natural […]

Midstream operator Williams Cos. an energy middleman whose pipelines act as toll roads, handles roughly one-third of all the natural gas in the U.S. every day, connecting it from where it’s produced to where it’s used. It’s one of the latest beneficiaries of artificial intelligence, as the company helps to provide some of the juice that increasingly electricity-hungry data centers require. “Williams has articulated an expectation for potentially 10% earnings growth through the end of the decade and even beyond; eight to 10 years is sort of the time frame,” says Ben Cook, portfolio manager of the Hennessy Midstream fund, which owns the shares.

Financial stocks were advancing in late Wednesday afternoon trading, with the NYSE Financial Index r

Financial stocks were advancing in Wednesday afternoon trading, with the NYSE Financial Index rising

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Apollo structured a record financing for Broadcom and Anthropic while keeping the debt off Broadcom's balance sheet.

BLK tops Q2 earnings and revenue estimates as AUM climbs 22% y/y on strong net inflows, but rising expenses remain a key challenge.

Blackstone-led investors acquire a 49% stake in five Williams power projects supporting rising AI-driven data center demand.

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As part of the deal, Blackstone and its partners will receive 49% noncontrolling equity interest in five power-infrastructure projects.

One family sold its struggling farmland for $22 million, joining a new class of multimillionaires who are cashing in on the AI data-center boom.

Blackstone’s share price has delivered a 42.8% gain over the past 5 years. At around US$123, the stock screens as expensive on several checks, while the intrinsic value estimate from the Excess Returns model points to pricing that is close to fair rather than clearly cheap. Over 5 years, Blackstone has returned 42.8%, which is a solid outcome that can make today’s entry point more sensitive to what investors are willing to pay next. Recent deals in energy transition and data centers can...

Csquare, a data center operator backed by Brookfield, is going public as investors are growing skeptical about AI and IPOs.

The private credit sector is growing rapidly, and it could get a huge boost when the average investor can buy in, too.

This is a hyper-growth chapter for Broadcom (AVGO), fueled by what management calls insatiable demand for AI infrastructure. The company's core engine is supplying custom accelerators and networking silicon to a handful of hyperscale customers, including Alphabet (GOOG.

Financial stocks were advancing in late Thursday afternoon trading, with the NYSE Financial Index ri

About $15 billion of the AI infrastructure financing could become tradable by early next year.

Financial stocks were edging higher premarket Thursday, with the State Street Financial Select Secto

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Barclays (BCS) is preparing to sell about $875 million of debt financing to support Blackstone (BX)

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