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Blackstone reported strong second-quarter results.
Alternative investment manager Blackstone (NYSE:BX) reported Q2 CY2026 results topping the market’s revenue expectations, with sales up 62.9% year on year to $5.04 billion. Its GAAP profit of $1.54 per share was 15.9% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
Stronger inflows into the investment firm’s private-equity business offset a slowdown in private credit, where individual investors have pulled back.
Stronger inflows into the investment firm’s private-equity business offset a slowdown in private credit, where individual investors have pulled back.
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Banks are opening a new balance-sheet escape valve, and investors are moving in fast. Significant risk transfers, or SRTs, have become one of the fastest-growing corners of credit markets, allowing lenders to shift credit risk from loan portfolios to outside investors while reducing the regulatory capital they need to hold. Banks had offloaded risk tied to more than 905 billion, or $1 trillion, of loans by the end of last year, up 26% from a year earlier, according to the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers.
Stocks are hovering near highs to close out the week. Crude oil is dipping, while gold and silver are mixed. The dollar and Treasuries are flatlining.
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