CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agoAlphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investmentarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1248arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1239arrow-down1external-linkAlphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investmentarstechnica.comCombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agomessage-square32fedilinkfile-text
My favorite comment on the article is “The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money."
minus-squaresquaresinger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 hours ago80 cents for how much initial value?
minus-squareebolapie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 hours agoThey’re actually around 80 bucks, versus an initial value of a cool hundo. But they also pay out like a 5% coupon rate annually, so if you had bought them in '97 you’d be slightly beating inflation.
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoSo those are associated with Motorola Solutions now, or did the debt move to Lenovo?
minus-squareebolapie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 hours agoYeah, the debt belongs to Motorola Solutions now. Although it would have been very funny if they somehow stuck Lenovo with it.
80 cents for how much initial value?
They’re actually around 80 bucks, versus an initial value of a cool hundo. But they also pay out like a 5% coupon rate annually, so if you had bought them in '97 you’d be slightly beating inflation.
So those are associated with Motorola Solutions now, or did the debt move to Lenovo?
Yeah, the debt belongs to Motorola Solutions now. Although it would have been very funny if they somehow stuck Lenovo with it.