{"id":1045758,"date":"2026-10-30T07:59:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045758"},"modified":"2026-10-30T08:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:36:26","slug":"microsoft-expects-to-raise-25-billion-in-us-bond-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/30\/microsoft-expects-to-raise-25-billion-in-us-bond-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft expects to raise $25 billion in US bond sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is planning to raise about $25 billion through its first US investment-grade bond sale in more than nine years, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The bond sale would make Microsoft the latest tech giant to tap into debt markets to fuel their AI ambitions. Bloomberg News first reported the news.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s largest tech firms have turned to selling bonds and raising equity over the past year to pay for their AI spending spree, a shift in approach for the Silicon Valley giants that have typically relied on their large coffers to fund investments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is planning to raise about $25 billion through its first US investment-grade bond sale in more than nine years, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. The bond sale would make Microsoft the latest tech giant to tap into debt markets to fuel their AI ambitions. Bloomberg News first reported the news. The world&#8217;s largest tech firms have turned to selling bonds and raising equity over the past year to pay for their AI spending spree, a shift in approach for the Silicon Valley giants that have typically relied on their large coffers to fund investments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1045758","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\/1045758","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045779,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045758\/revisions\/1045779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}