FSMN(@faststocknewss):Just a refresher: A bond is a loan you buy. You hand a company money today, they pay you back later with interest. Ratings agencies grade how likely a company is to pay it back. Above a certain line, it is investment grade. Below it, people call it junk. SoftBank is one notch below the line at BB+, so it has to promise higher interest to get lenders to say yes. Alphabet is AA+ and Amazon is AA, so they borrow cheaper. SoftBank is borrowing this money to buy more OpenAI. It has already put close to $65 billion in. OpenAI is private, and Sam Altman said it is not going public this year, so the stake is hard to turn back into cash. The interest payments are due either way. The rate on SoftBank's 2031 bond has gone from 6.7% in January to 8.2% this month.

2026.09.21 02:31

Just a refresher: A bond is a loan you buy. You hand a company money today, they pay you back later with interest. Ratings agencies grade how likely a company is to pay it back. Above a certain line, it is investment grade. Below it, people call it junk. SoftBank is one notch below the line at BB+, so it has to promise higher interest to get lenders to say yes. Alphabet is AA+ and Amazon is AA, so they borrow cheaper. SoftBank is borrowing this money to buy more OpenAI. It has already put close to $65 billion in. OpenAI is private, and Sam Altman said it is not going public this year, so the stake is hard to turn back into cash. The interest payments are due either way. The rate on SoftBank's 2031 bond has gone from 6.7% in January to 8.2% this month.

FSMN@faststocknewss

2026.09.21 02:12

SOFTBANK SEEKS OVER $11B IN JUNK BONDS TO FUND ITS OPENAI INVESTMENT The company is looking to issue $10B of dollar securities and €1B of euro notes, per people familiar cited by Bloomberg. The deal may price Thursday, with proceeds partly funding a follow-on OpenAI investment expected to close next month. At that size it would be one of the largest junk bond sales ever by a single firm. SoftBank is rated BB+ by S&P and has committed close to $65B to OpenAI. It has sold almost $15B of notes across currencies this year, the most of any junk-rated borrower in 2026. The yield on its 2031 dollar bond hit 8.2% earlier this month, from as low as 6.7% in January.

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