{"id":1043009,"date":"2026-10-14T08:38:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T03:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043009"},"modified":"2026-10-14T09:01:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T03:31:49","slug":"softbank-junk-bond-sale-raises-stakes-for-ceo-sons-all-in-ai-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/14\/softbank-junk-bond-sale-raises-stakes-for-ceo-sons-all-in-ai-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank junk bond sale raises stakes for CEO Son&#8217;s all-in AI bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank&#8217;s promise to pay its highest-ever yields in a record $11 billion junk-bond offering highlights the pressure on CEO Masayoshi Son to secure returns on his all-in bet on AI amid concerns about possible overheating in the market. <\/p>\n<p>The SoftBank debt issuance last month added to a sharp surge in corporate borrowing this year, including major bond sales from Amazon.com, Alphabet and Tencent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank&#8217;s promise to pay its highest-ever yields in a record $11 billion junk-bond offering highlights the pressure on CEO Masayoshi Son to secure returns on his all-in bet on AI amid concerns about possible overheating in the market. The SoftBank debt issuance last month added to a sharp surge in corporate borrowing this year, including major bond sales from Amazon.com, Alphabet and Tencent.<\/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-1043009","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\/1043009","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=1043009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043032,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043009\/revisions\/1043032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}