Bank of America warns: AI financing squeezes demand for emerging market bonds

Bank of America strategists warn that the debt financing boom for AI infrastructure is driving up borrowing costs for developing countries. In the second half of this year, the average yield on emerging market dollar bonds has surged by nearly 1 percentage point. Amazon and Google's parent company Alphabet Inc. have issued about $70 billion in debt, while the international bond issuance by emerging market sovereign borrowers has halved to $45 billion.