GRO MONEY NEWS - THE RALLY PUT ON LIPSTICK. CREDIT STILL ASKED FOR ID.

🚨 TECH BOUNCED MONDAY. CREDIT DID NOT GET THE MEMO.

The Nasdaq gained about 1.1% yesterday, but Tuesday morning Asia is selling AI hardware again. Meanwhile, investors are repricing AI data center debt, with some CoreWeave debt reaching yields near 15%.

🏗️ This is not the death of AI infrastructure. It is the end of pretending every GPU, tenant, borrower, lease, power contract, and capital stack deserves the same cost of money.

🚂 Ares is buying KKR’s Infinity Transportation for about $2.9B, using infrastructure and insurance capital to acquire roughly 50,000 railcars. Tradeweb is buying Trumid for about $1.97B, consolidating another piece of the infrastructure underneath global credit markets.

⚡ Oil remains above $100, the 10 year Treasury is around 5.14%, and the average 30 year mortgage is back around 7.43%. Capital is expensive, which means structure matters again.

🏢 Even San Francisco’s shuttered downtown Bloomingdale’s is being explored as a possible AI data center. Dead retail becoming compute infrastructure is exactly the kind of real estate conversion worth watching.

💰 Today’s sales idea: Find the development deals that stopped working when rates moved. Do not sell them another loan; rebuild the capital stack.

The opportunity is not cheap capital.

The opportunity is knowing how to make expensive capital work.

Until tomorrow, be the best human you can be.
~ Teresa Grobecker
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Duration: 9m
Broadcast on: 20 Oct 2026
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The rally put on lipstick. Credit still asked for ID. Good morning, and welcome to Grow Money News for Tuesday, October 20th. This episode is brought to you by Grow Group, which is actively looking to place $5 billion of equity financing in 2026 for qualified master builders in major MSA territories, with multiple financing structures, including up to 100% for developments, data centers, and solar projects. Apparently, money is still available. It has simply developed standards. Wall Street bounced Monday, but I would not confuse a tech rally with a repaired capital market. The NASDAQ gained about 1.1%, and the S&P 500 added roughly 0.4%, while the Dow slipped slightly. But the important signal was underneath the indexes. Capital remains highly selective about AI exposure, leverage, and duration. That becomes even clearer when we look at Asia this morning. South Korea's cost fee is down roughly 3.4%. Japan's Nikkei is down about 0.9%. Hong Kong is lower around 0.8%, and semiconductor names, including SK Hynix, Samsung, and TSMC are under pressure. So Monday's American technology rebound has not translated into a global declaration that everything is fine. It is not fine. It is simply being underwritten again. And frankly, that is healthy. The most important story for infrastructure investors today remains the re-pricing of AI data center credit. Investors have been selling bonds tied to major data center projects, including structures connected to meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, Oracle, QTS, Blue Owl, and CoreWeave. Some CoreWeave debt has traded at yields approaching 15%, while even project debt associated with stronger tenants has traded below par. This is where people need to stop calling everything with GPUs attached to it the same asset class. A highly leveraged neo-cloud borrower is not the same credit as a properly structured data center with hard collateral, contracted power, construction controls, an investment grade tenant, matched lease duration, and a credible takeout.

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