Alphabet (GOOG.US) has begun marketing a US investment-grade bond offering after raising its 2026 capital expenditure forecast, which triggered a selloff in AI-related bonds. The company is now testing investor appetite for its debt financing. According to a person familiar with the matter, Alphabet plans to issue up to 10 tranches of bonds with maturities ranging from 2 to 40 years. The person stated that the initial price guidance for the longest-maturity bonds is about 1.55 percentage points

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The final settlement price of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures contract for September delivery was $77.29 per barrel.

The crude oil futures night session listed on the Shanghai International Energy Exchange closed up 3.34%, at 526.70 yuan per barrel. The Shanghai Futures Exchange gold futures night session closed down 0.01%, while the silver futures night session closed down 0.93%.

The final settlement price of the September delivery natural gas futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange was $2.6400 per million British thermal units. The price fluctuations of such international energy futures are typically influenced by multiple factors, including the global supply and demand balance for natural gas, changes in production in major producing regions, extreme weather forecasts, shifts in geopolitical situations, and inventory data. These factors can also have a certain tra