Blackstone Jumps on Plans for $40 Billion Infrastructure Fund

  • Firm ‘just leapfrogged’ most of infrastructure world: analyst
  • Fund could benefit ‘significantly’ from Trump’s spending plan

Blackstone Group LP headquarters in New York April 14, 2017.

Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg
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Shares of Blackstone Group LP rose to the highest in 18 months after the private equity firm laid out plans for a $40 billion infrastructure fund.

The stock jumped as much as 7.1 percent Monday to $31.99, the highest since November 2015. It traded at $31.64 as of 11:06 a.m. in New York.