That's the warning from Wall Street and investors, if the recent pace of mega bond offerings from the likes of Alphabet Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. continues in 2026. These sales have capped a record year of global issuance. With tech firms expected to turn to debt for as much as $1.5 trillion by 2028 to fund expansion in artificial intelligence and data centers, that could widen spreads across the whole market, Morgan Stanley argues.
The easy answer is we have seen this movie before. Structured credit isn't fundamentally dangerous. But it does distribute risk throughout the system in a way that makes it harder to see and track and understand. And yes, that does worry me. It makes the job harder for investors, regulators, journalists, and others who act as a natural counterbalance against excess.
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is raising more financing than initially planned, tapping backers including Nvidia Corp. to lift its ongoing funding round to $20 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The financing includes equity and debt in a special purpose vehicle that will buy Nvidia processors and rent them to xAI for use in its Colossus 2 project, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private.
