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The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Wednesday closed down -0.74%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed down -1.21%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed down -0.29%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) fell -0.78%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...
Partners Group gates its $8.6 billion evergreen fund as redemption pressure spills over from private credit
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.40%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -0.74%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -0.08%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) are down -0.48%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.57%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -0.58%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -0.60%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) are down -0.50%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...
Financial stocks were falling pre-bell Wednesday, with the State Street Financial Select Sector SPDR
Swiss asset manager Partners Group caps withdrawals from one of its private-equity funds at 5% of the fund’s value.
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Despite Blackstone's underperformance relative to the financial sector over the past year, Wall Street analysts maintain a moderately optimistic outlook on the stock’s prospects.
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Pricing details have emerged on the $36 billion of investment-grade structured notes being shopped around by Apollo and Blackstone to private credit investors as part of a deal to purchase and then lease chips to AI giant Anthropic, according to market sources. The financing will include roughly $6 billion in ‘super-senior’ A1 notes, $25 billion in first-lien senior A2 notes, and $4.5 billion in second-lien B notes. Price talk on the A1 notes is T+100, sources said. Price talk on the A2 notes is
In May 2026, Blackstone announced a joint venture with Google to form a new U.S.-based company offering efficient data center capacity and Google Cloud TPUs as compute-as-a-service, underpinned by an initial US$5.00 billion equity commitment and plans for the first 500 MW of capacity to come online in 2027. The record close of Blackstone Capital Partners Asia III at US$13.10 billion, far above its US$10.00 billion target, underlines investor confidence in Blackstone’s Asia private equity...
Moody's Ratings has changed its outlook to negative on a Blackstone private-credit fund and a fund managed by Golub. The credit-rating firm made the change in outlook because of rising defaults in the private corporate loans made by the funds, which are known as business development companies, or BDCs. The ratio of defaulted loans in Blackstone Secured Lending Fund jumped to 4.7% from 0.6% last quarter, while Golub Capital BDC's ratio nearly doubled to 2.3% from 1.3%.
The fund topped its $10 billion target as Blackstone expands in Asia.
US private equity giant Blackstone has hit the final close of its third and largest Asia fund on $13.1 billion, according to an announcement on Tuesday. BCP Asia III was oversubscribed, signaling growing interest among LPs seeking high-growth markets to diversify their portfolios. “Asia Pacific is the fastest growing region in the world, presenting compelling opportunities to invest at scale behind our high-conviction themes and deliver for our investors,” said Joe Baratta, global head of Blacks
The New York-based alternative asset manager raised more than the $10 billion target for the Blackstone Capital Partners Asia III fund.
A logjam of unsold assets has buyout firms eager to list, but mixed debuts and erratic markets keep windows for new issues narrow.
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Financial stocks were advancing in late Friday afternoon trading, with the NYSE Financial Index risi
Apollo and Blackstone are seeking investors for a TPU-backed debt deal tied to Anthropic's AI infrastructure buildout.
Google and Blackstone plan to build 500MW of US data centre capacity by 2027 to offer TPU-powered “compute-as-a-service” for AI workloads. This venture is signalling a strategic shift: compute capacity is increasingly viewed as core infrastructure, even as power, permitting, and other challenges mount.
OWL is leaning into digital infrastructure and wealth-channel funds to diversify fees beyond direct lending, while watching retail redemptions.