{"id":1042776,"date":"2026-10-13T08:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042776"},"modified":"2026-10-13T08:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:28:11","slug":"tencent-sells-dollar-dim-sum-bonds-amid-ai-spending-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/13\/tencent-sells-dollar-dim-sum-bonds-amid-ai-spending-spree\/","title":{"rendered":"Tencent sells dollar, dim sum bonds amid AI spending spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tencent Holdings is selling US dollar and offshore Chinese yuan, or dim sum, bonds in a deal that could raise at least $4.5 billion as the Chinese technology giant seeks funding amid higher spending on artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>The sale comprises 10-year and 20-year US dollar notes and 10-year and 30-year offshore yuan notes, according to term sheets seen by Reuters on Tuesday, which did not specify the size of any tranche. <\/p>\n<p>Tencent set initial guidance for the 10-year dollar notes at about 115 basis points over comparable US Treasury bonds. The 20-year notes were set at about 140 basis points over Treasuries, according to the sheets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tencent Holdings is selling US dollar and offshore Chinese yuan, or dim sum, bonds in a deal that could raise at least $4.5 billion as the Chinese technology giant seeks funding amid higher spending on artificial intelligence. The sale comprises 10-year and 20-year US dollar notes and 10-year and 30-year offshore yuan notes, according to term sheets seen by Reuters on Tuesday, which did not specify the size of any tranche. Tencent set initial guidance for the 10-year dollar notes at about 115 basis points over comparable US Treasury bonds. The 20-year notes were set at about 140 basis points [&hellip;]<\/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-1042776","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\/1042776","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=1042776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042797,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042776\/revisions\/1042797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}