Smith Collection | Gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images More graduate students are likely to take out private education loans after new federal loan caps were established in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. That prospect is worrying, consumer advocates and other financial experts say — private lenders are likely to reject many…
The market volatility may be leading retail investors astray. According to Kathmere Capital Management’s Nick Ryder, they shouldn’t use the current backdrop as an excuse to dive into defensive trades — including dividend-paying stocks and bonds. “Oftentimes, we just see too often people taking an income-focused approach, and it leaves a lot on the table,”…
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet’s debt sale keeps getting bigger. The company is close to finalizing a global bond issuance in excess of $30 billion, according to two…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures to the crowd during Google’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, on May 20, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images As Alphabet returns to the debt market to fund its artificial intelligence buildout, the company is acknowledging new risks tied to the rise of AI…
Data center giant Oracle‘s stock rose 5% in premarket on Monday, after the company announced plans to raise up to $50 billion to develop additional capacity for customers. Hyperscalers have scrambled to build the infrastructure needed to power AI, with data center deals hitting a record $61 billion in 2025 and multiple big tech firms…
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell on October 1, 2025, in New York City. Timothy A. Clary | Afp | Getty Images PIMCO President Christian Stracke is upbeat on the asset-based finance segment of the private credit market, but warns of “cracks” in corporate…
