{
  "id": 8654818,
  "title": "Apollo Sees Higher-for-Longer Rates Fueling AI Infrastructure Financing Boom",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/19/apollo-sees-higher-for-longer-rates-fueling-ai-infrastructure",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-19T05:02:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Yahoo Finance",
    "slug": "yahoo-finance",
    "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/apollo-sees-higher-longer-rates-050212545.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Apollo Global Management expects interest rates to stay higher for an extended period, with a 10-20% chance of a recession within the next year. Factors like consumer spending, persistent inflation, and investment in AI infrastructure are driving economic activity. The firm views AI as a significant financing opportunity, providing structured capital to investment-grade companies in areas such as digital infrastructure, energy, logistics, and defense, rather than betting on individual technology successes. Apollo has completed over 200 transactions totaling approximately $150 billion through its high-grade capital-solutions business. Firm president Scott Kleinman stated that AI and traditional energy, transportation, logistics, and renewable energy infrastructure represent major financing opportunities. Apollo is actively expanding in Europe due to less robust local capital markets and is also expanding its private-equity presence. The company has seen a successful year in institutional fundraising, with its Fund XI private-equity vehicle raising $12 billion. Kleinman anticipates that private-equity managers will reduce in number as firms struggle to return capital and expects innovation in long-term company ownership and market-like active equity management.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}