{"id":992395,"date":"2026-02-16T08:05:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992395"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:05:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:35:32","slug":"alphabet-100-year-bond-why-did-googles-parent-issue-a-rare-century-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/16\/alphabet-100-year-bond-why-did-googles-parent-issue-a-rare-century-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet 100-year bond: Why did Google&#8217;s parent issue a rare century bond?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google 100-year bond: Google&#8217;s parent company, Alphabet Inc., recently made headlines by issuing an ambitious 100-year bond. This move by Alphabet Inc. is aimed at raising funds for the company&#8217;s AI ambitions. An offer with a 100-year lock-in is seen as an investment for the next generation, as the investor might not be alive to receive the return on their money after 100 years. Another risk is the company&#8217;s survival and dominance over the next century.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Alphabet&#8217;s 100-year bond yield is 6.125%, which may rise in future bond offerings as bond prices and yields move in opposite directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google 100-year bond: Google&#8217;s parent company, Alphabet Inc., recently made headlines by issuing an ambitious 100-year bond. This move by Alphabet Inc. is aimed at raising funds for the company&#8217;s AI ambitions. An offer with a 100-year lock-in is seen as an investment for the next generation, as the investor might not be alive to receive the return on their money after 100 years. Another risk is the company&#8217;s survival and dominance over the next century. Today, Alphabet&#8217;s 100-year bond yield is 6.125%, which may rise in future bond offerings as bond prices and yields move in opposite directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992395","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}