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On Wednesday, Amazon netted £4.25 billion ($5.76 billion) through its debut sterling bond offering, coming in just above early targets, as hyperscalers keep turning to bond markets beyond U.S. borders to fund artificial intelligence infrastructure, according to Reuters.
Total orders reached £10.65 billion by the time books closed, retreating from a peak of around £12 billion after banks moved to tighten spreads, according to Reuters. The structure allocated £1.25 billion to the shortest three-year portion, with the remaining three tranches — maturing in six, twelve, and nineteen years — each sized at £1 billion. Yields ranged from around 5.2% on the three-year tranche to 6.7% on the 19-year issue.
JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, HSBC, and NatWest managed the sale, according to Bloomberg.
Investor demand covered the offering about 2.5 times, well below the roughly fivefold demand Alphabet saw when it raised £5.5 billion in sterling debt in February, according to Reuters. Gordon Shannon, partner at TwentyFour Asset Management, said the weaker reception reflected growing concerns about the pace of hyperscaler borrowing. "It does show that demand is not unlimited," Shannon said.