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Teresa Grobecker
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GRO MONEY NEWS brings quick, clear insights on real estate and financial markets. In under 10 minutes, Teresa Grobecker covers capital markets, mortgage rates, housing trends, Fed policy, crypto and digital assets, and economic shifts to keep you ahead.

  1. 1d ago

    🛢️ Oil just sent your term sheet back for revisions.

    Brent closed Monday above $90, the 10 year Treasury moved to 4.72 percent, Wall Street pulled back, and Asia opened Tuesday with Japan down sharply as markets started repricing inflation risk. Yet CNN’s Fear & Greed Index remains in “greed” and volatility is still unusually low. Translation: the market sees the fire alarm; it simply has not decided to leave the building. 💰 Monday’s deal tape was far more interesting than the stock indexes. Stripe agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, Madison Air agreed to buy airflow technology giant Ebm Papst for $5.4 billion, and Nvidia committed $1.5 billion to SB Energy as the financing architecture around OpenAI’s massive Ohio compute build becomes almost as important as the technology itself. ⚡ That is today’s institutional theme: AI is becoming an infrastructure and capital stack business. Chips need compute, compute needs buildings, buildings need power, power needs generation and transmission, and lenders eventually need somebody creditworthy contractually obligated to pay the bill. 🏗️ WhiteFiber also agreed Monday to buy two North Carolina industrial properties for $60 million and retrofit them into data center campuses with 60 MW of initial expected gross utility capacity and potential expansion toward 200 MW. Great story, but the underwriting lesson matters more: megawatts are not bankability. Utility certainty, signed credit, completion support, construction economics, and a permanent takeout are bankability. 🏦 Today on GRO MONEY NEWS, we break down markets, Asia, mortgage and CRE rates, housing, employment, Monday’s M&A, Nvidia and OpenAI’s infrastructure financing structure, stablecoin regulation under Treasury’s new GENIUS Act proposal, Opportunity Zone tax changes, and the risks family offices should diligence before wiring capital. 🎯 Hot sales idea: Stop asking a developer whether they need financing. Ask what is preventing financial close. Then ask who the tenant is, how much of the capital stack is actually committed, what the takeout is, and which unresolved condition is stopping the transaction. You will learn more in five minutes than from three months of “checking in.” Listen, share it, and tag somebody who understands that the most valuable AI asset may not be an algorithm. It may be the power plant, transmission line, cooling system, lease, or financing agreement underneath it. Until tomorrow, be the best human you can be. ~ Teresa Grobecker. Sign up for the daily newsletter on LinkedIn. Read on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7354236980961886208 Listen to GRO MONEY NEWS https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gro-money-news/id1833953369 GRO MONEY PODcast and the accompanying newsletter are provided for informational and educational purposes only and do not constitute financial, investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Nothing herein is an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security or to participate in any investment strategy. Reliance upon any information provided is at your sole discretion and risk. Views expressed are those of the authors as of the publication date and may change without notice. While sources are believed to be reliable, no representation or warranty is made as to accuracy, completeness, or timeliness, and no duty to update is assumed. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Receipt of this content does not create a client, advisory, fiduciary, or brokerage relationship. You should consult your own licensed financial, legal, and tax advisers regarding your specific circumstances. Grobecker Holland International, its affiliates including GRO GROUP, and their principals may hold positions or have business relationships related to companies or assets discussed.

  2. 2d ago

    The VIX took a nap. Credit committees did not.

    🤖 Nvidia is working with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilize more than $500 BILLION for AI compute infrastructure. 🏗️ The giant OpenAI Ohio data center financing is reportedly being restructured around a smaller initial guarantee and phased deployment. 💳 Stripe is reportedly paying more than $7 BILLION for OpenRouter, a company sitting between developers and hundreds of competing AI models. 🏢 Meanwhile, roughly $5.5 BILLION of private label CMBS hard maturities hits this month while the ten year Treasury sits near 4.7 percent. Those are not four unrelated headlines. They are the same story. Capital is getting more selective about what actually deserves financing. AI compute is becoming an infrastructure credit product. Data center land is becoming a power trade. Model routing is becoming a strategic rail. Commercial real estate is separating viable assets from obsolete capital structures. Until tomorrow, be the best human you can be. ~ Teresa Grobecker Sign up for the daily newsletter on LinkedIn. Read on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7354236980961886208 Listen to GRO MONEY NEWS https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gro-money-news/id1833953369 GRO GROUP Brought to you by GRO Group—we are actively looking to place $5B of equity financing in 2026 for qualified Master Builders in major MSA territories. We offer multiple financing options, including up to 100% for developments, data centers, and solar projects. Teresa Grobecker, MBA, CRPC, is an investment banker specializing in capital formation and structured finance, bonds and REITs, data centers, AI, solar, ground-up development and conversions, and is a global speaker on blockchain, stablecoins and payment rails with a focus on CRE and public policy. CA DRE 01908507 CEO and Broker of Record, Grobecker Holland International, Inc., CA DRE 01976696 GRO MONEY PODcast and the accompanying newsletter are provided for informational and educational purposes only and do not constitute financial, investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Nothing herein is an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security or to participate in any investment strategy. Reliance upon any information provided is at your sole discretion and risk. Views expressed are those of the authors as of the publication date and may change without notice. While sources are believed to be reliable, no representation or warranty is made as to accuracy, completeness, or timeliness, and no duty to update is assumed. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Receipt of this content does not create a client, advisory, fiduciary, or brokerage relationship. You should consult your own licensed financial, legal, and tax advisers regarding your specific circumstances. Grobecker Holland International, its affiliates (including GRO GROUP), and their principals may hold positions or have business relationships related to companies or assets discussed.

  3. 5d ago

    The Bond Market Wants Collateral

    🚨 Wall Street celebrated flat producer inflation. The thirty year Treasury responded by charging the United States its highest auction yield since 2001. One side ordered champagne; the other asked to see the balance sheet. Today’s GRO MONEY NEWS explains why the S&P 500 reached another record while long term financing risk remains unresolved. We cover the technology rally across Japan and South Korea, current mortgage and CRE rates, rising housing inventory, H&R REIT’s C$6.7 billion transaction, and the construction inflation number hidden beneath the friendly PPI headline. 📈🏦🏗️ The capital formation story is even larger. NVIDIA signed preliminary agreements with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to pursue more than $500 billion of compute financing, while Bank of America announced a $250 billion infrastructure initiative. Those are powerful distribution channels, but they are not unconditional checks. Capital still requires power, permits, credit support, delivery certainty, and an executable capital stack. ⚡🖥️💰 We also dissect Fermi’s $6.5 billion TensorWave lease, delayed GENIUS Act rules, the year end Opportunity Zone execution deadline, and a forty eight hour bankability screen that developers and capital advisers can use immediately. Listen, share, and tag someone who still thinks a press release is the same thing as funded capital. 🎙️📊 Until tomorrow, be the best human you can be. ~ Teresa Grobecker Sign up for the daily newsletter on LinkedIn. Read on LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7354236980961886208 Listen to GRO MONEY NEWShttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gro-money-news/id1833953369 GRO GROUP Brought to you by GRO Group—we are actively looking to place $5B of equity financing in 2026 for qualified Master Builders in major MSA territories. We offer multiple financing options, including up to 100% for developments, data centers, and solar projects. Teresa Grobecker, MBA, CRPC, is an investment banker specializing in capital formation and structured finance, bonds and REITs, data centers, AI, solar, ground-up development and conversions, and is a global speaker on blockchain, stablecoins and payment rails with a focus on CRE and public policy. CA DRE 01908507 CEO and Broker of Record, Grobecker Holland International, Inc., CA DRE 01976696 GRO MONEY PODcast and the accompanying newsletter are provided for informational and educational purposes only and do not constitute financial, investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Nothing herein is an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security or to participate in any investment strategy. Reliance upon any information provided is at your sole discretion and risk. Views expressed are those of the authors as of the publication date and may change without notice. While sources are believed to be reliable, no representation or warranty is made as to accuracy, completeness, or timeliness, and no duty to update is assumed. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Receipt of this content does not create a client, advisory, fiduciary, or brokerage relationship. You should consult your own licensed financial, legal, and tax advisers regarding your specific circumstances. Grobecker Holland International, its affiliates (including GRO GROUP), and their principals may hold positions or have business relationships related to companies or assets discussed.

  4. Aug 12

    CPI Has the Microphone. Megawatts Have the Money.

    📊 CPI has the microphone this morning. Megawatts have the money. Wall Street is waiting for one inflation decimal point while Fermi and Riot have attached $15.6 billion of base term revenue to 413 megawatts of Texas data center capacity. The market may reprice Treasury yields in seconds, but institutional capital is being allocated through power rights, permits, tenant guarantees, completion support, and twenty year lease economics. 🌏 South Korea’s Kospi surged 4 percent as Samsung and SK Hynix rallied.⚡ Fermi signed a $6.5 billion TensorWave lease covering 222 megawatts.🏗️ Riot signed a $9.1 billion base term lease covering 191 critical information technology megawatts.✈️ Joby agreed to acquire defense contractor Resonant Sciences for approximately $500 million.🏠 Existing home sales fell even while prices rose, proving that price stability and market liquidity are not the same thing.⚖️ FinCEN permanently eliminated domestic Corporate Transparency Act beneficial ownership reporting, but serious lenders will still demand full ownership and source of funds diligence. Today’s episode explains what makes contracted data center revenue financeable, why the ten year Treasury auction may matter as much as CPI, and how developers can turn a tenant commitment into institutional collateral. Listen, share, and tag someone who still thinks a data center becomes bankable when someone adds more GPUs to the pitch deck. GRO GROUP is actively evaluating qualified data centers, solar projects, oil and gas transactions, and ground up developments for financing structures that can provide up to 100 percent of project capital. Until tomorrow, be the best human you can be. ~ Teresa Grobecker Sign up for the daily newsletter on LinkedIn. Read on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7354236980961886208 Listen to GRO MONEY NEWS https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gro-money-news/id1833953369 GRO GROUP Brought to you by GRO Group—we are actively looking to place $5B of equity financing in 2026 for qualified Master Builders in major MSA territories. We offer multiple financing options, including up to 100% for developments, data centers, and solar projects.

  5. Aug 11

    The Chipmaker Opened a Bank, and Oil Sent the Invoice

    💻 Nvidia opened a bank for GPUs, and the bond market sent everyone else the bill. Six major capital providers are preparing financing platforms intended to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure. The critical distinction is that the announcement consists of memorandums of understanding, not $500 billion of funded commitments. 📈 Monday’s indexes barely moved, but oil surged 5.1 percent, the ten year Treasury reached 4.72 percent, and the thirty year reached 5.25 percent. Real estate lost approximately 1.5 percent because strategic scarcity may be valuable, but ordinary yield looks weak when the government pays more. ✈️ Archer also agreed to acquire Boeing’s Wisk, SkyGrid, and Insitu businesses using stock, warrants, governance rights, and future financing participation. We break down the actual dilution mathematics, the more than $200 million of acquired annual revenue, Archer’s current cash burn, and why representation and warranty insurance does not insure the business plan. 🎧 Listen to today’s GRO Money News for the markets, rates, real estate consequences, AI financing mechanics, policy catalysts, and the one page bankability map every developer should prepare before approaching capital. Share it and tag someone who still thinks a GPU rack is the entire collateral package. Until tomorrow, be the best human you can be. ~ Teresa Grobecker Sign up for the daily newsletter on LinkedIn. Read on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7354236980961886208 Listen to GRO MONEY NEWS https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gro-money-news/id1833953369 GRO GROUP Brought to you by GRO Group—we are actively looking to place $5B of equity financing in 2026 for qualified Master Builders in major MSA territories. We offer multiple financing options, including up to 100% for developments, data centers, and solar projects. Teresa Grobecker, MBA, CRPC, is an investment banker specializing in capital formation and structured finance, bonds and REITs, data centers, AI, solar, ground-up development and conversions, and is a global speaker on blockchain, stablecoins and payment rails with a focus on CRE and public policy.

  6. Aug 10

    The DECA Download: 🤖⚡ AI infrastructure is no longer the boring trade.

    🤖⚡ AI infrastructure is no longer the boring trade. This Deca Download examines the $10B, fully unlevered DECA Fund: modular GPU pods, just in time compute, recurring GPU refreshes and ring fenced SPVs built to own the physical layer of the AI buildout. 🔒 Until tomorrow, be the best human you can be. ~ Teresa Grobecker Sign up for the daily newsletter on LinkedIn. Read on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7354236980961886208 Listen to GRO MONEY NEWS https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gro-money-news/id1833953369 GRO GROUP Brought to you by GRO Group—we are actively looking to place $5B of equity financing in 2026 for qualified Master Builders in major MSA territories. We offer multiple financing options, including up to 100% for developments, data centers, and solar projects. Teresa Grobecker, MBA, CRPC, is an investment banker specializing in capital formation and structured finance, bonds and REITs, data centers, AI, solar, ground-up development and conversions, and is a global speaker on blockchain, stablecoins and payment rails with a focus on CRE and public policy. CA DRE 01908507 CEO and Broker of Record, Grobecker Holland International, Inc., CA DRE 01976696 GRO MONEY PODcast and the accompanying newsletter are provided for informational and educational purposes only and do not constitute financial, investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Nothing herein is an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security or to participate in any investment strategy. Reliance upon any information provided is at your sole discretion and risk. Views expressed are those of the authors as of the publication date and may change without notice. While sources are believed to be reliable, no representation or warranty is made as to accuracy, completeness, or timeliness, and no duty to update is assumed. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Receipt of this content does not create a client, advisory, fiduciary, or brokerage relationship. You should consult your own licensed financial, legal, and tax advisers regarding your specific circumstances. Grobecker Holland International, its affiliates (including GRO GROUP), and their principals may hold positions or have business relationships related to companies or assets discussed.

  7. Aug 10

    The Economy Lost 23,000 Jobs, So Wall Street Sent Flowers

    📉 America lost 23,000 jobs in July. 📈 Wall Street responded by pushing the S&P 500 to another record, because financial markets are perfectly capable of converting labor market weakness into a discount rate celebration. Today’s GRO MONEY NEWS explains what sophisticated capital should see beneath the rally. Asia is buying the rate pause thesis, the VIX has fallen to 14.90, and Wednesday’s inflation report will collide with a $42 billion ten year Treasury auction that could determine whether Friday’s rally survives the week. 🏗️ Prologis is buying SEGRO for approximately $18.8 billion, creating a logistics and digital infrastructure platform with roughly $269 billion under management. KKR has closed a $19.2 billion infrastructure fund, while commercial lenders are competing on spread but reducing leverage and demanding stronger debt service coverage. ⚡ Power policy is becoming underwriting policy. New York has paused new hyperscale data centers, Texas is auditing every data center in the ERCOT interconnection process, and a site without verified power is no longer a bankable project, regardless of how attractive the rendering looks. In today’s episode, you will learn what markets are pricing, where infrastructure capital is moving, why commercial credit remains available but unforgiving, and how a ten day Bankability Sprint can turn an unstructured development pipeline into a credible financing mandate. Listen, share, and tag someone who still thinks data center underwriting begins with land instead of power, tenancy, and contractual cash flow. Until tomorrow, be the best human you can be. ~ Teresa Grobecker Sign up for the daily newsletter on LinkedIn. Read on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7354236980961886208 Listen to GRO MONEY NEWS https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gro-money-news/id1833953369 GRO GROUP Brought to you by GRO Group—we are actively looking to place $5B of equity financing in 2026 for qualified Master Builders in major MSA territories. We offer multiple financing options, including up to 100% for developments, data centers, and solar projects. Teresa Grobecker, MBA, CRPC, is an investment banker specializing in capital formation and structured finance, bonds and REITs, data centers, AI, solar, ground-up development and conversions, and is a global speaker on blockchain, stablecoins and payment rails with a focus on CRE and public policy. CA DRE 01908507 CEO and Broker of Record, Grobecker Holland International, Inc., CA DRE 01976696 GRO MONEY PODcast and the accompanying newsletter are provided for informational and educational purposes only and do not constitute financial, investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Nothing herein is an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security or to participate in any investment strategy. Reliance upon any information provided is at your sole discretion and risk. Views expressed are those of the authors as of the publication date and may change without notice. While sources are believed to be reliable, no representation or warranty is made as to accuracy, completeness, or timeliness, and no duty to update is assumed. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Receipt of this content does not create a client, advisory, fiduciary, or brokerage relationship. You should consult your own licensed financial, legal, and tax advisers regarding your specific circumstances. Grobecker Holland International, its affiliates (including GRO GROUP), and their principals may hold positions or have business relationships related to companies or assets discussed.

  8. Aug 7

    🚨 THE U.S. LOST 23,000 JOBS IN JULY. WALL STREET RESPONDED BY RALLYING.

    Nothing says Friday quite like a weak jobs report becoming bullish because investors decide the Federal Reserve might now have a slightly smaller reason to make money even more expensive. But the headline market reaction is not the important story. 💰 The real capital story this week was enormous. Saudi Arabia’s PIF, Silver Lake and Affinity completed the approximately $55 billion Electronic Arts take private. Apollo agreed to acquire easyJet for roughly $7.7 billion. Visa agreed to buy BioCatch for $2.4 billion, pushing deeper into AI powered fraud and identity infrastructure. Brookfield reported a record $77 billion of fundraising in one quarter, with $5 billion already committed to its first AI Infrastructure Fund. Amazon filed plans for multiple new Texas data center buildings carrying hundreds of millions of dollars of estimated construction cost each. 🏗️ Meanwhile, the labor market quietly deteriorated. July payrolls declined by 23,000. May and June employment were revised downward by another 103,000 jobs combined. Financial activities employment lost another 14,000 jobs in July and is now down 121,000 from its May 2025 peak. 🏠 Mortgage rates are still near 7%, but sellers are finally blinking. National median list prices have now trailed last year for 29 consecutive weeks, and more than 100,000 properties received price reductions for the fourth consecutive week. ⚡ And the AI thesis keeps becoming less about software and more about infrastructure. The largest capital pools are not merely betting on who makes the best chatbot. They are positioning to own the infrastructure underneath intelligence. 🧠 My end of week thesis: Capital is not disappearing. Capital is becoming selective. Next week brings July CPI on Wednesday and PPI on Thursday. That will tell us whether Friday’s weak jobs number gives the Fed real breathing room or whether we are moving toward the uglier combination of softer employment and persistent inflation. 🎙️ Today’s GRO MONEY NEWS covers the entire week through an institutional capital allocation lens: markets, rates, housing, sovereign capital, M&A, AI infrastructure, crypto compliance, tax changes and exactly what family offices should be asking before they wire money. Listen. Share it. Tag somebody whose investment thesis could survive a little more underwriting. Until tomorrow, be the best human you can be.~ Teresa Grobecker ⁠Sign up for the daily newsletter on LinkedIn.⁠ Read on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7354236980961886208 Listen to GRO MONEY NEWS https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gro-money-news/id1833953369 GRO MONEY PODcast and the accompanying newsletter are provided for informational and educational purposes only and do not constitute financial, investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Nothing herein is an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security or to participate in any investment strategy. Reliance upon any information provided is at your sole discretion and risk. Views expressed are those of the authors as of the publication date and may change without notice. While sources are believed to be reliable, no representation or warranty is made as to accuracy, completeness, or timeliness, and no duty to update is assumed. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Receipt of this content does not create a client, advisory, fiduciary, or brokerage relationship. You should consult your own licensed financial, legal, and tax advisers regarding your specific circumstances. Grobecker Holland International, its affiliates (including GRO GROUP), and their principals may hold positions or have business relationships related to companies or assets discussed.

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  • Creator
    Teresa Grobecker
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    256
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