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Apollo Global Management is a global alternative asset manager investing in private equity, credit, and infrastructure assets.
Apollo told prospective 2028 associate candidates Thursday it will skip on-cycle recruiting this calendar year, as it did for the 2027 class. Its memo hopes more firms join the delay, after General Atlantic and others paused last year.
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KBRA assigned Anthropic a BB+ credit rating, one notch below investment grade, as the company plans more than $500 billion of infrastructure spending. Crypto Briefing puts the financing at $35 billion in one article and $60 billion in another.
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General Atlantic plans a first-half 2027 IPO at a valuation of up to $10 billion, the Financial Times reported. Cryptopolitan says the date slipped from 2026, but one firm's calendar is thin evidence on how fast the alternative-manager window is reopening.
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The 10-year Treasury yield reached about 5.22% from 4.75% in August, a level last seen in 2007, Axios reported. Wall Street analysts say heavy AI borrowing could make financing harder for the government, other companies and households.
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Foreign buyers acquired 326 Japanese companies for 6.2 trillion yen from January to September, more than they spent in all of last year. The yen and a tax change get the credit, but succession sales and corporate carve-outs also feed the supply.
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Paramount closed its $111 billion purchase of all Warner Bros. Discovery assets on October 6 and renamed the merged company Skydance. Netflix bid only for the studios and streaming, so CNN now shares an owner with HBO Max and CBS.
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Kevin Warsh's hawkish Fed sent the 10-year Treasury yield up more than half a point to about 5.3% in September, a Fortune column argues. Its own account of traders dumping long bonds describes the term premium it dismisses, with the Fed as the cause.
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SpaceX is seeking $40 billion from Apollo and banks for Nvidia GPUs through private credit, after its $25 billion June bond slid to a junk spread. Demand for AI paper is still deep, but the collapse of the Firmus IPO shows the appetite has limits.
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SpaceX is seeking $40 billion in Apollo-led debt to buy Nvidia chips, $30 billion of it investment-grade, the Financial Times reported. The deal would close in 2027, the year most of its $28 billion in AI commitments come due.
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Samsung Electronics plans up to 110 trillion won in shareholder returns this year after quarterly operating profit topped 100 trillion won for the first time. Most of that sum is still a range, and its final size depends on a memory business that earned nearly all of the quarter's profit.
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Solana exchange Orca and lender Loopscale merged into Formation to finance AI, energy and defense firms on Loopscale's $2 billion lending record. ORCA stakers carry the first cost: a related proposal would cut their share of protocol fees from 40% to 10%, Cryptopolitan reported.
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Broadcom is arranging more than $50 billion in financing for OpenAI's Jalapeno chip, according to Bloomberg. The talks have not settled a borrower or security, so the risk of a chip still in development could sit with OpenAI, Broadcom or the lenders.
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Blue Owl's co-CEOs ruled out a management buyout even after private-credit redemptions sent the shares down 70%. Semafor argued lending is unlikely to power growth again, so public holders are relying on the firm's business as a landlord to AI data centers.
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UK 30-year gilt yields hit their highest level since 1998 this week as a global bond sell-off deepened. Economists cited by the Guardian think about half of the £24bn fiscal buffer has already gone before John Healey's first budget on 28 October.
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Meta's Muse agent can find and cancel recurring subscriptions, aiming at the inertia and friction Stanford economists say roughly double sellers' revenue. Subscription spending still grew 7.7% in July, so the test is whether that growth slows once agents start making households decide.
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SpaceX's five-year credit default swaps hit a record 197 basis points on October 7 after reports of a roughly $40 billion debt raise for Nvidia chips. Its 2056 bonds had already widened 51 basis points before that news, so creditors were repricing its debt load before the chip plan came up.
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Bank of America Institute data show job-switchers' pay growth fell from nearly 18% in 2022 to 8% in early 2026, against 5% for stayers. Employers saved mostly on hiring offers, and a September update shows that premium climbing again.
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The MOUs with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR let borrowers pledge GPUs. What keeps those GPUs pledgeable is CUDA support, and no term has been stated.
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Memorandums with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman and KKR carry no terms or timetable, and NVIDIA has reserved an option to backstop up to $125 billion of the deals.
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Nvidia is lining up Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to raise over $500 billion with its GPUs as collateral. The plan works only if that hardware keeps its value for as long as the debt it secures stays outstanding.
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