Flood of AI Bonds Adds to Pressure on Markets

Wall Street is straining to absorb a flood of new bonds from tech companies funding their artificial intelligence investments, adding to the recent pressure in markets. 

Since the start of September, so-called AI hyperscalers Amazon AMZN 1.63%increase; green up pointing triangle.com, Alphabet GOOGL 3.53%increase; green up pointing triangle, Meta Platforms META 0.87%increase; green up pointing triangle and Oracle ORCL -5.66%decrease; red down pointing triangle have issued nearly $90 billion of investment-grade bonds, according to Dealogic, more than they had sold over the previous 40 months.

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