{"id":1029943,"date":"2026-08-20T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029943"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:09:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:39:44","slug":"alphabet-raises-3-9-billion-in-inaugural-australian-dollar-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/20\/alphabet-raises-3-9-billion-in-inaugural-australian-dollar-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet raises $3.9 billion in inaugural Australian dollar bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet has raised A$5.5 billion ($3.89 billion) via its inaugural Australian dollar debt issuance, according to a term sheet seen by Reuters, adding to \u200cthe hectic \u2060pace \u2060of fundraising by global tech companies. <\/p>\n<p>The US \u200btech giant raised the amount by issuing \u200b3-, 5-, 10- and 20-year bonds, the term sheet showed. The company \u200bset the coupon \u2060at 6.9% \u200cfor the longest tenure \u200bbond \u200btranche, according to the term \u2060sheet. <\/p>\n<p>Alphabet did not immediately respond to \u200ba request for comment from \u200bReuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet has raised A$5.5 billion ($3.89 billion) via its inaugural Australian dollar debt issuance, according to a term sheet seen by Reuters, adding to \u200cthe hectic \u2060pace \u2060of fundraising by global tech companies. The US \u200btech giant raised the amount by issuing \u200b3-, 5-, 10- and 20-year bonds, the term sheet showed. The company \u200bset the coupon \u2060at 6.9% \u200cfor the longest tenure \u200bbond \u200btranche, according to the term \u2060sheet. Alphabet did not immediately respond to \u200ba request for comment from \u200bReuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029967,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029943\/revisions\/1029967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}